Need to work on my death cyber plan; will start with what BlackRoomSec wrote on Twitter: “DO NOT SHUT OFF MY PHONE”
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/07
[Archive1/Archive2] BlackRoomSec had a great Twitter thread on death cyber plan.
Everyone, including me, should work on such plan. Their motivation to publish it started with another thread: [Archive] BlackRoomSec on Twitter: “I just unlocked a pc of a deceased person for his daughter using clues he left in a password book and a sticker on the laptop. This is better than the time I guessed Esco’s pin. PLEASE make a death cyber plan. She was hysterical crying in my arms. Happy to help but this guts me😟”.
The actual thread then started with [Archive] BlackRoomSec on Twitter: “Mine starts with a stop sign that says DO NOT SHUT OFF MY PHONE 2nd page there is a box where my Yubikey is taped and the logo which is used throughout. 3rd is a picture of my cell lock pattern drawn out.”.
The full thread is at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @blackroomsec on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App and I got OK to quote it: [Archive] BlackRoomSec on Twitter: “@jpluimers Yes🙂” / Twitter
So here is the full quote:
Mine starts with a stop sign that says
DO NOT SHUT OFF MY PHONE
2nd page there is a box where my Yubikey is taped and the logo which is used throughout.
3rd is a picture of my cell lock pattern drawn out.
[Archive] Deedo-dev on Twitter: “@blackroomsec That’s sounds amazing. Can you give an example of what a death cyber plan would look like? Would that mean give credentials to loved ones, include credentials in your will, or register person’s that get access to your account in that case with certain platforms (if that exists)”
On each page, at the top, I have icons of what they’ll need. Flowcharted out.
Example: Twitter
You need my:
🔐📲 + password
I walk them through each type of access, explaining the process so they understand why they need to do these steps.
Ex: This acct has 2FA in Duo app (logo) but if that fails, do this.
I explain that they should not type wrong passwords more than twice due to potential lockout procedures existing or future I might not know about bc they haven’t happened.
2x wrong? = Forgot password steps.
Every page I remind them at the footer that I know this is upsetting and stressful but this is what I loved, this WAS me, my life, and a pound of prevention is worth an ounce of cure.
Via [Archive] Jason Squires on Twitter: “…Here is something @cl created for a plan as well: …” / Twitter, I learned that [Archive] Chrissy LeMaire 🥖🧀 (@cl) / Twitter has created this on preparing our close ones in the event we die:
[Wayback/Archive] Chrissy LeMaire 🥖🧀 on Twitter: “Back in 2012, I moved to Belgium with my wife and started working with a bunch of techies who eventually became life-long friends. …”
[Archive] Chrissy LeMaire 🥖🧀 on Twitter: “@blackroomsec I experienced something similar last week and created this in response for techs like us — it’s a template to help our families …” / Twitter
[Wayback/Archive] potatoqualitee/froopyland-dr: “What happens to their homelab?” A crowd-sourced guide to help techs help their non-tech spouses/partners/parents/kids when we ☠️:
In the event that I disappear off to Froopyland..
Back in 2012, I moved to Belgium with my wife and started working with a bunch of techies who eventually became life-long friends.…I always thought he’d be there and was devastated when I found out he died unexpectedly.What about his homelab?
“What about his homelab?” I thought. “Will his wife’s wifi devices even be able to get an IP address if his DHCP server goes down?”. I reached out to her to see how she was doing and she told me that, six months on, she avoids his office at all costs. She worries what will happen when her TV no longer works, when her wifi no longer works. She knows people will help, but the idea of calling them is torturous. Heartbreaking.…I put together an initial draft to answer these questions for my own wife, and then crowdsourced the rest.…checklist.md -> checklist.docx
Within hours of this interaction, I created a Word document, printed it out, filled in a couple passwords manually, and then stored it in a fire proof bag.…
I need to update that with my own information.
Automation
The repository consists of a (for us techies) easy to maintain Markdown document [Wayback/Archive] froopyland-dr/checklist.md at main · potatoqualitee/froopyland-dr.
For non-techies, there is a word document at [Wayback/Archive] froopyland-dr/checklist.docx at main · potatoqualitee/froopyland-dr (or [Wayback] RAW download) that automatically gets updated by a GitHub Action:
[Wayback/Archive] froopyland-dr/checklist.md: checklist.md -> checklist.docx
Here is a sanitized list that you can use for your own purposes. If anything is missing or you have suggestions, please feel free to submit a PR. Upon approval, the Word doc will be regenerated for others.
You can see this in the [Wayback/Archive] Commits · potatoqualitee/froopyland-dr that come in pairs like these:
- [Wayback/Archive] Local Storage & Backups (#20) · potatoqualitee/froopyland-dr@79818e3
- [Wayback/Archive] update word · potatoqualitee/froopyland-dr@41bb766
The conversion is being done with the open source converter Pandoc.
Actions are configured in yaml files inside the .github/workflows directory of your repository and run inside virtual environments:
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub Actions Documentation – GitHub Docs
- [Wayback/Archive] About GitHub-hosted runners – GitHub Docs
A GitHub-hosted runner is a virtual machine hosted by GitHub with the GitHub Actions runner application installed. GitHub offers runners with Linux, Windows, and macOS operating systems.
When you use a GitHub-hosted runner, machine maintenance and upgrades are taken care of for you. You can run workflows directly on the virtual machine or in a Docker container.
You can specify the runner type for each job in a workflow. Each job in a workflow executes in a fresh instance of the virtual machine. All steps in the job execute in the same instance of the virtual machine, allowing the actions in that job to share information using the filesystem.
The GitHub Actions runner application is open source. You can contribute and file issues in the runner repository.
- [Wayback/Archive] How do I use Docker with GitHub Actions? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] soerface and [Wayback/Archive] Edward Thomson)
The yaml files are these, but since both identify as “name: Convert markdown to Word“, I do not know for sure which one is actually being used:
- [Wayback/Archive] froopyland-dr/convert-and-commit.yml at main · potatoqualitee/froopyland-dr
- [Wayback/Archive] froopyland-dr/test-convert.yml at main · potatoqualitee/froopyland-dr
More people should like this
This should be promoted more. Rob Sewell already did promote:
[Archive] Rob Sewell – He/Him on Twitter: “➡️➡️Hey – Techy Folk.⬅️⬅️ Are you the one who controls all the techy things? Have you thought about what happens if you are not able to? Will your love/friends/family understand? Do they know how to get access? My Awesome Friend Chrissy has created a thing to ease your worries” / Twitter
Dutch
This was a good Dutch newspaper article: [Wayback/Archive] Niet leuk, maar wel nodig: zo regel je je digitale erfenis | Tech | AD.nl.
Too bad the newspaper hates the Wayback Machine, so I re-saved they Archive.is content in the Wayback Machine as Wayback: Archive.is: Niet leuk, maar wel nodig: zo regel je je digitale erfenis | Tech | AD.nl.
Keywords
So I can find it back: digital, heritage, will, legacy, death
–jeroen
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