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Interest in a legal deadman's switch

Started by Merely_A_Visitor · Mar 24, 2025

#4893
Hi guys,

I've had the idea to create a 100% legal (I like privacy, but I don't like jail) hidden service and have decided the easiest would be a deadman's switch (though ideas are welcome). So I wanted to see, would you be interested in a service that lets you "store" an email (or perhaps just an encrypted file) in exchange for Monero and sends that email/exposes the file once a certain heartbeat request has failed to show up for long enough? Or perhaps such a service already exists?

[Posted here on recommendation from a d/OpSec admin]
#4894
↳ Replying to @Merely_A_Visitor
A good deadman's switch should not depend of another human being to operate. You might die yourself and the servers goes off with you once the server expire or get shut down.

This is a bad and unusable idea even if you do it for free... doubt anyone is gonna pay for it.
#4895
↳ Replying to @Merely_A_Visitor
Just get an SH script that checks if a certain device is plugged in i.e. USB and if you remove it then it turns off or destroys the PC ...?