>Not only does encryption during data recovery make everything much more difficult, but should you pass away, your family members might not have the skills required to access the data
Uh, trust me, that's a good thing.
Uh, trust me, that's a good thing.
Eg Camlistore/Perkeep had the premise of using JSON to store data. However some random person isn't going to write code to parse all that data, pull files out, etc. A lifeboat .exe might be interesting.
Though doing it in the most simple, least configurable, least breakable way seems.. necessary. Yea some baked in UI would be cool, but more moving parts means less likely to work.