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Software Dead Man's Switch
Anonymous Coward writes "DaisyMan over on ArsWare has come up with a software based Dead Man's Switch that will, if you don't 'check in' every so often, post a message (presumably about your demise, but whatever you wish) to various message boards, send email (maybe that incriminating evidence?) to your friends, and encrypt specified files on your computer so that 'they' can't have them.
Paranoia? Yeah, but they really _are_ watching you ..." Update: 06/22 12:57 GMT by T : The idea isn't new, but recently sparked a New York Times article.
Reminds me of my last job when we fired someone from finance. I had to go confescate his PC, and every "storage medium" I could find from his office while he was in HR. Not quite the same, but he went on the "death march" and his machine just "vanished" from his office.
-Pete
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Why do people insist on typing MUAHAHAHA (ad infinitum) after their post? Do they really think it is funny or are they just goofed on skunk weed?
Oh, and while I am burning up the Karma.
Loose rhymes with GOOSE! it is Lose as in when you lost somthing...
Ok, I am sane again now, you can stop slapping me....
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
But it reveals the flaws of any Dead Man's Switch when his increasing Alzheimers (IIRC) means he knows that he has to do it and what the consequences will be if he doesn't, but he gets stuck half way through and can't complete the task.