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Service Promises To Leak Your Documents If the Government Murders You
Jason Koebler writes With all the conspiracy theories surrounding some high-profile deaths in recent years, how can you, theoretical whistleblower with highly sensitive documents, be assured that your information gets leaked if you're murdered in some government conspiracy? A new dark web service says it's got your back. "Dead Man Zero" claims to offer potential whistleblowers a bit more peace of mind by providing a system that will automatically publish and distribute their secrets should they die, get jailed, or get injured.
Is there such thing as independent hosting? You will be sharing your secrets with whatever jurisdiction the site is under. Does the service say which country is that?
17779 eligible voters in a district, 17779 'vote' as one. This is Russia.
Probably a false flag operation to identify potential whistleblowers. :-)
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I'll just leak it now. Obama's birth certificate is fake. He was actually born in California to aKenyan mother and his real father was none other than John F Kennedy.
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It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
What is needed is a two piece dead man switch. Storage that is encrypted, and a second party to hold the keys. Preferably the two parties do not know each other. Then in your will you instruct the key-holder to send the keys to the storage provider.
This is more complex and more likely to fail in the event of your death, but after that while it may be nice if your info is outed, buty ou are beyond caring.
Silence is a state of mime.
...nah, somebody's already got it parked.
i dont see this lasting too long beyond the first major incident.
Wouldn't there also be a group of people (not the government) that might want those secrets out? This gives them a reason to kill you with a guarantee that they get what they want.
Anybody truly paranoid and knowledgeable would not touch this with a 10 ft pole.
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The USA would have the keys to all of them, since they seem to 0wnz the entire world's internet. (NSA spying on all the pipes, etc.)
Believe it or not, it is possible to move digital information (like a key) around the world without using the internet.
Drive that station wagon full of tapes to a port and have the station wagon loaded into a cargo container? :-)
Isn't it great that we live in a world where this is actually a service?
It's not that hard to arrange for info to be distributed should something happen to me.
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There should be a duress password to indicate coercion.
More than an hour in and no one has even made a passing reference to 'My Socrates Note' yet?
For shame....
This sort of idea can make you more valuable dead to those who want the information leaked in one massive hit, so it can be run through the 24 hour news wash and then forgotten.
What if a "foreign power" wants the information released? All they have to do is kill you.
Isn't that why, allegedly, Snowden turned-over all his documents to journalists? So that if he's killed, there's no remaining stash of documents to be released upon his death?
Read the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton". Got the goods on someone? Upload them to Dead Man Zero, set the timer, and then go squeeze the victim. The victim won't retaliate as they then won't be able to stop the disclosure.
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This is a new government program. They do want to kill you, but they really want to know what you have first, just in case it is really damaging. By giving them your stuff, they can make an informed decision whether to murder you right away or possibly (although not likely) hold off for awhile.
What if government R gets wind of the documents you have on government U and decides to murder you so that the documents get released?
Consider, Michael Crichton wrote a book in which the villains were a group of ecological alarmists. Then suddenly he dies at a young age from a previously undiagnosed cause, his book is pulled from publication and his personal web site is "cleansed" of his questions about the science of alarmist climate change (See Aliens Cause Global Warming). What details would have been leaked had he this service? We will never know.
Holding all the cards makes you the one everyone want to kill --- or crack wide open.
The geek who can keep his big mouth shut outside the narrow bounds of the darknet is a rare beast indeed. If I held secrets hot enough to burn, my first instinct would be to publish them straight-way and slip away quietly in the ensuing chaos.
Haha, oh shit.. that is hilarious! The lack of *snark* indicates that you are such a tool you actually believe such a sad statement too. I'm sure in your mind he deserved that Nobel prize, Gitmo was closed, Torture stopped, the Government became more transparent and accountable, we finally have a balanced budget, the deficit was reduced, Bankers were held accountable for embezzlement and fraud, and the wars in the Middle East really ended.
I wish I could say that you were just a shill, but in reality there are many that believe false claims and have no idea what a "fact" really is.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Did anybody besides me notice that the "link" in the story included "onion" in it?!?! This tells me that this is more than likely a story from "The Onion"
Geesh, where are peoples' detective skills these days?
Read the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton".
Milverton was shot dead by one of his victims who wouldn't pay up and suffered accordingly, with Holmes instinctively tidying things up for her afterward.
in Elementary, both blackmailer and accomplice are killed by a not-so-innocent victim who saw a chance to take their place.
In "Sherlock," it is Holmes himself who pulls the trigger.
The character of Charles Augustus Milverton was based on a real blackmailer, Charles Augustus Howell. He was an art dealer who preyed upon an unknown number of people, including the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Doyle's literary inspiration often came from his natural interest in crime, and he had no tolerance for predators. Howell died in 1890 in circumstances as strange as any of Doyle's novels: His body was found near a Chelsea public house with his throat posthumously slit, with a ten-shilling coin in his mouth. The presence of the coin was known to be a criticism of those guilty of slander.
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
agreed!
Someone wants you dead anyway. Particularly if they know that you know something they either don't want you to know or it getting out. Release it anyway, he's either going to kill you afterward or run for the hills (depending what it is). Consider yourself fortunate if he does the latter. Blackmail NEVER works.
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Where a service promised to email personal messages to friends and family "left behind" after the rapture. The three members who founded it would log in every day, assuming that if at least two of them failed to log in, being god-fearing Christians, the rapture has occurred. You can see where this is going.
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This is from the same company I bought meteor insurance from.
Table-ized A.I.
*facepalm*
The fact that this is needed (in the minds of enough people to be bothered with setup) is beyond fucked up.
Or create multiple accounts, etc.
such service already exists since few years. it's called http://www.deadman.io/ and it's on the public/sunny net
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That must run on dark fiber...
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Curiously I can't seem to find the site. And there are very few "Dead Man Zero" hits on Google. The link in the main article doesn't get you there either. (I was going to ask them for a free account, just to foil the NSA or whoever if in fact this _was_ a honeypot.
I run a company FailSafeToday and we focus on customers Digital AfterLife by enabling our users to place a Failsafe on their personal digital info. Before I started the website I was worried about suicide and blackmail. I still don't see anyway to control how the customer uses the website.
The name of the website is TrustUsWereNotTheFBI.com
What is to prevent the Gov. from infiltrating "Dead Man Zero" and NSLing them into silence! The only way to ensure that the information gets out would be to have multiple storage site scattered around the various countries where the NSL, CIA, FBI and other TLAs don't have standing.
Shades of the good old movie called Captain Kidd, free on the web. Mr. Povey (I think his name was) left a letter implicating Captain Kidd in England that was to be turned over to the authorities if he didn't make it back from a journey on Captain Kidd's ship.