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    Comment #47352090

    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 …

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    Comment #47306139

    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…

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    Comment #47290678

    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 abl…

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    Comment #47290667

    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 …

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    Comment #47290656

    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 t…

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    Comment #29599673

    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 i…