1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts

lopinc:

I understand your concerns.

I too have 2FA on my email account. I use 1Password's plug-compatible authenticator in place of Google's authenticator. So, when I save my email address and password in a vault that my family organizer shares, she automatically get my email 2FA key as well. So 2FA is not an issue for me. And I actually prefer 1Password's authenticator over Google's because I think it is a lot easier to use.

I understand your concern about your trusted person's account getting hacked because of their carelessness with protecting their master password or secret key. But I would argue that if you are worried about that, then you have trusted the wrong person. Trusting a person means more than just trusting their honesty. It also means trusting that they have the capacity to properly safeguard the secrets with which you entrust them. If you don't have that confidence, then you should find another person who embodies both those qualities. Also, even if 1Password were to implement a perfect fully automated legacy system today based around the recovery key, you would still have the same problem if you didn't trust that person to properly care for the recovery key.

Finally, yes you are correct that the larger issue is that 1Password should provide an automatic emergency access feature. And as I said before, my short-term solution is not perfect. But I refuse to be paralyzed by inaction and not implement a good solution today because I don't have a promised perfect solution right now.

I hope this helps.
Dean