Yeah, but Stalin also had 700,000 people shot in 2 years, so it doesn't work amazingly. A more important point is that you must be pragmatic about such things.

Yeah, but Stalin also had 700,000 people shot in 2 years, so it doesn't work amazingly. A more important point is that you must be pragmatic about such things. If you install a dead man's switch to your computer, you must realise that no matter how morally correct you are, in many countries it's very possible that you'll go to prison if the computer is seized in a useless state (for example, in Britain you'll be on the hook for up to 2 years in jail). In many cases, that'll be professional suicide. So unless you have something to hide that's worth more than that jailtime, this software actually is a hindrance. I think the comment about militarisation and torture is really besides the point - it's clearly unrelated to the issue at hand.