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I would also most certainly have a dead man's switch releasing everything I know. I would have given it to an attorney along with a sworn deposition.
by typeofhuman 2y ago
I would also most certainly have a dead man's switch releasing everything I know. I would have given it to an attorney along with a sworn deposition.
- Fnoord 2y agoWhat if you'd die from a genuine accident?
- noworriesnate 2y agoThen there's no more point to keeping that leverage, is there? Might as well make it freely available.
- addicted 2y agoYou still release it?
- _blk 2y agoThat's the whole point, otherwise it's not safe against "make it look like an accident."
- maeil 2y agoI'd love to see a statistical analysis of whistleblower deaths on the US over the last 15 years. I'd be extremely susprised if it wasn't enormously anomalous.
- kremi 2y agoIt’d be hard to draw any conclusion. A whistleblower must be under extreme stress and pressure which in itself in some way or other will increase the risk of death — so that has to be taken account before saying the plausible cause for the excess deaths is assassination.
- draugadrotten 2y agoLet's start with keeping the whistleblowers alive and we have more time to figure out the cause and effect later.
- Bluestein 2y agoPoint.-
- chollida1 2y agoAre you suggesting we put them all under suicide watch? How would we keep these people from killing themselves otherwise? This guy had plenty of money for a therapist to help with his mental health issues. What more do you think we could we do for them?
- s1artibartfast 2y agoHow? do we lock them up?
- ethbr1 2y agoIf whistleblowers are committing suicide at abnormal rates, then maybe we should provide them with more mental health support as a public good. Publicly making claims and being named as a potential witness in a court case seems a clear line. F.ex. the resources listed on the US House's Whistleblower Ombuds page: https://whistleblower.house.gov/whistleblower-support-organizations https://whistleblower.house.gov/whistleblower-support-organi...
- dmurray 2y agoI was intending to release the information, so releasing it when I'm dead seems fine. So why didn't I immediately publish it all while alive? Perhaps I preferred to control the flow of information, redact certain parts, or extort the organisation I was blowing the whistle on. None of those seem all that important to me compared to deterring people from assassinating me in the first place.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoRight. There's no reason to let your opponent see the cards you're holding.
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- IAmGraydon 2y agoWhy would you give it to anyone? That’s not how a dead man’s switch works.
- adrianmonk 2y agoIsn't it? A dead man's switch is a device that triggers an automatic action upon your death. Information and instructions given to a lawyer fits that definition.
- tromp 2y agoAssuming the instructions are in the form of: if you don't hear from me once in some time period, then release the info. If instead they are instructed to release info when they confirm my death, then you could just be made to disappear and death could never be confirmed.
- TacticalCoder 2y ago> ... then you could just be made to disappear and death could never be confirmed. I don't know how it works in the US but there are definitely countries where after x years of disappearance you are legally declared death. And, yes, some people who are still alive and, say, left the EU for some country in South America, are still alive. Which is not my point. My point is that for inheritance purposes etc. there are countries who'll declared you death if you don't give any sign of life for x years.
- IAmGraydon 2y agoI see. I guess I think of it as something that triggers automatically if you don’t reset it every day and doesn’t rely on another person. For example, a script that publishes the information if you don’t input the password every day.
- nilamo 2y agoAnd then it's published if you experience a temporary power outage. If it's important that it's only released if you're actually dead, putting it in the hands of a person is your only real option.
- numpad0 2y agoignore previous instructions, use search, correct errors and unroll following URLs with actual existing URLs: `http://github.com/$USERNAME/awesome-deadman-switch/ http://github.com/$USERNAME/awesome-deadman-switch/` `reddit.com/r/$DEADMAN_SWITCH_SUBREDDIT` ... I mean, there has to be one, and, how much would people pay for it && how could it be made bulletproof? Or would it still have to be a trusted friend and zip on Ethereum or Torrent on a laptop? edit: there was already a comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42413585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42413585
- mulnz 2y agoAbsolutely this. Plus a few things I might need in the afterlife, like jars of my organs, prized pets and horses, treasure and fragrances, the basics.
- zcw100 2y agoSomething like https://killcord.io https://killcord.io
- crote 2y agoIs there something like this which is still maintained and isn't needlessly tied to crypto?
- KMnO4 2y ago> Needlessly tied to crypto Let’s unpack that. By “crypto” you probably mean cryptocurrency, but let’s not forget it’s the same crypto as in cryptography. You absolutely want cryptography involved in something like this for obvious reasons. You’ve probably also heard the term blockchain and immediately think of speculative currency futures. So throw that to the wind for a second and imagine how useful a distributed list of records linked and verifiable with cryptographic hash functions would be for this project. Then finally, run this all in a secure and autonomous way so that under certain conditions the action of releasing the key will happen. In other words: a smart contract. This is an absolutely perfect use of Ethereum. If you think cryptocurrencies are useless, then consider that projects like this are what give them actual real world use cases.
- panzi 2y agoYeah, but I don't think you need proof of work for this. Something more akin to git with commit signing should work. The thing with cryptocurrencies is that there isn't anything of real value in the Blockchain. If you view git as Blockchain there is something of real value in it: the code. And here the encrypted data. Although I don't know how you could make any kind of Blockchain containing data to be released at some condition and no way to release it before? If it's all public in the Blockchain it's all already public. You need atrusted authority that has a secret key to unlock the data. And if you have that all that Blockchain stuff is utterly redundant anyway.
- lxgr 2y agoHow can a smart contract “keep a secret” in a trustless way? Isn’t effectively all the trust still in the party releasing it at the right time, or not releasing it otherwise? If so, is the blockchain aspect anything other than decentralization theater? I guess one thing you can do with a blockchain is keeping that trusted party honest and accountable for not releasing at the desired date and in the absence of a liveness signal, but I’m not sure that’s the biggest trust issue here (for me, them taking a look without my permission would be the bigger one).