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What Does Your Dead Man's Switch Do?

Posted by Cliff on from the in-the-event-of-doom dept.

LqdEngineer asks: "How many of you use or have used a Dead Man's Switch designed to perform some action if you don't check in for a certain amount of time? Recently, I decided to put one together using MySQL and some cron jobs, but I wanted to see what others have their switches set up to do in the event you fail to check in. E-mails to loved ones? Send encryption keys to friends/family? Hate mail to your boss? Has anyone ever been on the receiving end of the results of such a system?"

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  1. Oh the irony. by imageboard · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. How fitting.

    1. Re:Oh the irony. by TheCrazyMonkey · · Score: 0, Redundant

      You're obviously new here

  2. Re:First things first by Eivind · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Why ? It's an honest question.

    Are you ashamed of being the person you infact are ?

    Do you feel you *should* be ashamed if you're the kind of person that enjoys looking at porn ?

    Do you pretend to be someone else than you actually are, in effect carrying a mask even for your closes, loved ones ?

    You even wish to preserve this mask in death -- prefering that people think of you as the person you pretended to be your entire life, rather than as the person you actually where ? (And let's be frank: most people close to you probably saw trough the mask decades ago. But offcourse, they're gonna play a farse too and pretend they didn't.) Why ?

    Isn't that a horribly sad way to live your life ?

    Alone, hidden behind a mask, ashamed, allowing noone to see the real you ?

    Here's a tip: You're not that bad. Stop being ashamed for being a normal human being. Your sexuality is part of that. Just because thousands of years old religious crap says it's a sin to be human, doesn't mean you should fall for it.