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# cat /etc/cron.daily/dead-man-switch #!/bin/bash wget -O latest https://raw.github.com/asdf/feab/data.txt if [ ! grep `date +%m%d%Y` latest ] ; then
by staunch 13y ago
# cat /etc/cron.daily/dead-man-switch
#!/bin/bash
wget -O latest https://raw.github.com/asdf/feab/data.txt
if [ ! grep `date +%m%d%Y` latest ] ; then
echo "The key is uRYB9vCT53jCSkjzaf9b" | mail -s "I'm dead." glenn.greenwald@...
fi
Wouldn't be hard to run this on a few random computers around the world pretty anonymously. The NSA getting the key isn't too big of a deal.
Of course, you'd want to test this and make it more fault tolerant.
- jlgreco 13y agoIt could work, but I know that if I were in Snowden's place I would be more keen on relying on people, and not having to "phone home" (I am fairly confident that news of his demise or "disappearance" would eventually become public).
- danbruc 13y agoFind one, know the page, obtain the logs who accessed the page, find all. Or catch Snowden and keep updating the page yourself. Not that it can not be done in a similar way but it is non-trivial to get it right.
- pyre 13y ago| it is non-trivial to get it right. But malware writers / botnet owners have been doing it for a while.
- e3pi 13y agoPOST EDMS triggered launch, a simmering autonomous viral botnet, foisting ES plaintext onto infected email address lists, pastebin, etc., anything else it can fool CAPTCHA registration, with generating SHA256 signatures, new passwords, the whole open source kitchen sink of paranoidal-crypto-craft to effect public-at-large propagating whistle-blaring incriminating secrets, successfully leaked.
- e3pi 13y agoRubber Hose Cryptanalysis: "Good morning Mr Snowden? How was your sleep last night? Oh yes, that's right, you didn't get any. So to begin with, No I will not get that light out of your face, What was this you or Mr Greenwald mentioned about having your distributed files securely backed up, and have you a deadman switch Mr Snowden, you understand, in case of your demise? .... a bash shell script? Why the hell you didn't you use python?! This is going to be a problem. How are we going to fix it?"
- cheald 13y agoAssuming, of course, that you don't experience a network partition. MTAs are partition-tolerant; wget is not. Whoops, that Github service outage just threw the world into political chaos. :)