[Quinotto]

I don't understand why would they want to get into the man's email account. If he decided, while alive, for his family NOT to know his password, why would his death make any difference? They cannot argue that they want copies of his emails, they have that in their inbox or copies of what they sent, they have that on their sent box. Something is very fishy here and I am surprised nobody in that little article brought up the issue.

[FITZ]

I can't imagine doing this to a loved one. Never in a million years would I want to snoop on a child that much --- to take advantage of their death in such a way, what kind of information on him are they hoping to find? And my email is completely benign stuff. You can usually get into someone's email quite easily on places like Yahoo --- you're going to know the answer to most any secret question in case they lost their password --- mother's maiden name, city of birth, favorite pet ---- so if he made his secret question that secret then he doesn't want them reading it.