frank_be

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by frank_be 7mo ago
Smart trade-off. The "two separate infrastructures" model is pragmatic — perfect security that nobody can use is no security at all. The Portable Secret option is a nice touch for the paranoid-but-organized crowd. Do you find most
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by frank_be 7mo ago
The multi-channel verification and tiered escalation are the way to go. that's the hard part on the trigger side. What I keep coming back to with anonymous services is the delivery experience. Once the switch fires, what does the recip
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by frank_be 7mo ago
Anonymous signup is a smart move, no PII means no breach surface. But for a dead man's switch specifically, anonymity creates an interesting tension. You want the service to be able to verify you're actually gone (not just on va
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by frank_be 7mo ago
That $120B number is real, but the problem is more subtle than most people think. A USB drive solves "where are my keys", and then creates three new problems: physical destruction (fire, flood, theft), the assumption that your ben
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by frank_be 7mo ago
The trust argument for self-hosting is real: I wouldn't hand my master seed phrase to a random SaaS either. But there's a deep irony in self-hosted dead man's switches: they need to work when you can no longer maintain them.
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by frank_be 5y ago
I work as a CI(S)O for a startup. We have lots of freelancers and have Soc2. Unless you fake your soc2, there are two options: give freelancers a company laptop, or force them to install the agent. We do two things. One: we give them the ch