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Software Dead Man's Switch

Posted by timothy on from the take-short-vacations dept.

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.

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  1. Memories.... by peterdaly · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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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