avoiding digital disaster or life after death
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This presentation was conducted for a Mac user group in Gainesville, Florida as a dry run for Macworld | iWorld 2014.TRANSCRIPT
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Avoiding Digital Disaster! or, Life After Death
Allison Sheridan June 2014
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Tim and Alice Verpoorten
Not a Geek
Geek
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22 Moving Boxes $2800 in Shipping Costs!
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Key Areas to Consider
• Who could access your passwords if something happened to you?
• What services should continue if you were incapacitated (or worse)?
• How organized are your electronics?
• What could you document to protect your interests and give your family/friends a helping hand?
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Who Knows Your
Passwords?
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Passwords• If you’re not already using a
Password Manager…
• Consider sharing your master password with someone you trust
• Put it in a Safe Deposit Box?
• Print it, cut in half and give to two people
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Passwords - Credit Cards
• If something happened to you - would your credit cards be cancelled?
• As we go through theslides, think how much of your geek life is connectedto your credit cards
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Don’t Let Your Email Account
Disappear
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Is Your Email with Your ISP?
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Passwords Two-Factor Authentication
• You’re a geek so you’ve turned on two-factor authentication
• But what if they got rid of your cell phone?
• Maybe have a someone else’s phone be the alternate ID - useful if your phone gets stolen or you have to change your number
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Services - Files
• Where do you store your files?
• What do you want preserved?
• What could be lost if you weren’t there to manage it?
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Services - Photos
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Services - Websites
What would happen to the sites you manage?
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Services - Backups
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Services - Social
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Now About Your Stuff…
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Geek Inventory• Use your password manager (remember LastPass and
1Password?)
• Use Secure Notes to enter date purchased and purchase price
• Even helps you with warranties
• This way your family will have a clue if something is valuable
• Home Inventory in the Mac App Store
• Even if you won’t do it retroactively
• Maybe start today going forward?
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Do You Love to Be the Guy Who has That Thing
the OTHER Guy Needs?
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Power Supplies
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Zippered Bags FTW
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ChecklistTell them what credit card is tied to your services
Tell them to keep your email account open for a year
Tell them to keep your cell phone active for 2-factor authentication
Tell them if you care your photos in the Cloud - pay those bill
Tell them what you have in Cloud storage - pay those bills
Tell them if someone ELSE depends on your Cloud storage
Tell them about the websites you own - especially if you do this for someone else
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Checklist (cont)Tell them to keep your backups running - pay those bills
Set up Google Inactive Account Manager - make decisions now on what happens to your account
Give someone access to your password manager and TELL them you did it!
Sort your cables into zippered bags with labels
Buy a label maker (or silver Sharpie) for your power supplies
Label your boxes “Crap” and “Not Crap”
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Link Farm of Doom™• LastPass: lastpass.com
• 1Password: agilebits.com
• CrashPlan: crashplan.com
• Carbonite: carbonite.com
• Transporter: filetransporter.com
• Google Inactive Account Manager: support.google.com
• Facebook Memorial Request: facebook.com/help/150486848354038
• Home Inventory: itunes.apple.com
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