[kijin]

Personally, I don't see any reason for anybody to have access to my online passwords if I die tomorrow. Everything that really matters is either already public (e.g. GitHub) or already shared with people who matter (e.g. Dropbox shared folders). No need for a password to access their contents. I also can't think of any cloud-based data that I would want to keep password-protected during my life but reveal after death. If it's not already public and/or shared with at least my family, it's probably because I have judged that it's none of their business in the first place.

But the contents of my encrypted hard drive is a different question. The article suggests using a hidden volume with a separate password, and that's a use case I've never thought of. Although practically, it would be more convenient to use two separate partitions or an external hard drive, because then you can mount both at the same time and periodically synchronize data between them.