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UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts::Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I don't know anything about tamping paper documents, only that it's difficult in an election when everyone is watching and that we can't watch computer bits.

Offline is certainly more secure than online but software is almost guaranteed to have bugs. An attack is potentially as simple as plugging in an USB stick into the right device anywhere in the chain of creating, storing and fetching the data to view the contents.

The convenience of a digital will may be overall more worthwhile than any security advantages paper has. I fear governments may require users to submit the will using their own proprietary 'black-box' software.