I can see so many things go wrong with this:<p>- Company tanks.<p>- Company gets acquired, and your private data gets mined.<p>- Company gets hacked and database dump gets posted.<p>I think I'd rather stick to the old methods of sealed envelopes and trusted friends or a lawyer. It's more reliable and requires less brain time slices ("Does the comapny still exist? Has it been hacked or acquired?" etc)
Google already has a service for this:<p><a href="https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/account/inactive" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/account/inactive</a>
Call me cheap, but $1 a month seems a little steep for this for me. I'm not planning on dying for another 50 years or so. Even if your site is still around at that point (which, let's be honest, isn't likely), I'll have paid $600 for you to send off a couple email for me.<p>It's a cute idea, and maybe something I'd consider for a small, one-time fee, but I definitely would never pay monthly for it.
I'm constantly losing/breaking my credit/debit cards and forgetting about the services I have subscribed to. Usually I'm reminded by an email from a service telling me that they were unable to charge my credit card. Does it mean that next time it happens and i'm subscribed to your service everyone related will be notified of my death?<p>Edit:
I read the description one more time and it seems that you send an email three times. But still I don't see how not answering email is a good way to determine that I'm dead.
Cool idea, but what happens if, for instance, I lose access to my email account? Or if the messages start going into my junk folder? I'd hate to scare my loved ones with an email implying I've disappeared/died.
> The system can not generate the key required to decrypt your data unless you are logged in. Our staff have no means of accessing your data at any given time.<p>If this is true, how can your service work? If I'm dead, I can't log in to generate a decryption key so my message can be sent in the clear.<p>If your service works, how can this be true? If it can decrypt and send my message in the clear when I'm dead, I very evidently don't need to log in for decryption to occur.
How is this secure? You yourself (or somebody who works for you – a rogue employee) could access your database and decrypt all of your customers passwords and sensitive data for their accounts. This adds a single point of failure for everything you store/send with it. You get hacked, and now they have access to everything.
Can't you send an email on a timer? Say a day or two after your birthday or some holiday. Every year on your birthday you reset the timer. It could take some time after you disappear for the info to arrive.
Those two "Sign up" buttons hide the last line of both paragraphs for me. Also, the three buttons at the top ("login with") look a bit funky.