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Re: Show HN: Discreet dead man's switch for victims of domestic abuse

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Who said anything about The State doing the killing?

Usually, people are even more against private killings.

Maybe. There are plenty of reasonable philosophical positions from which one could conclude that private killings are preferable to public ones and that private killings are perfectly acceptable under the right circumstances.

Re: Show HN: Discreet dead man's switch for victims of domestic abuse

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"Expect" is a word that has different meanings depending on the context: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/expect > To predict or believe that something will happen In this sense, I do not expect most websites to work without javascript. > To consider obligatory or required. In this sense, I do expect most websites to work without javascript. At the very least, for accessibility reasons.

You can expect all you want, I expect you’ll be disappointed. The goal to keep the web in that languid state is of the same ilk of the buggy whip. It’ll have archaic use cases, but the numbers won’t make sense for a lot of if not most future endeavours.

Opine all you like, it won't stop us from raising a stink about inaccessible websites.

Re: Show HN: Discreet dead man's switch for victims of domestic abuse

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My problem with any "Dead man switch" is the fact that none of these services seem to survive. Also, can you please write somewhere on the website what's your privacy policy? Is everything encrypted? if so, with what? By it's nature this kind of service will hold very sensitive information.

The privacy policy can be found fixed to the bottom of the website on every page (next to the copyright notice). As with any service you should assume that nothing is encrypted (even though it is) and follow other articles that I've written about how to securely maintain private information when using third party services.

So in short, the answer is "no".

I don't see why anybody would ever use your unsecure service or even pay for it.

Re: Show HN: Discreet dead man's switch for victims of domestic abuse

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Coming from a background in Law Enforcement (Australia) and dealing daily with Domestic Violence, this is a great idea. Does need a polish (few bugs - can't delete switches / change reporting time?) and yes, potentially a 'cover story change' (build a simple period tracker for the female audience?) I know there are a few private and government organisations over here trying to battle this problem, with the use of tec…

I see variations on the concept of the OP in different forms like a codeword drink at a bar. Is there any evidence out there that they work?

Re: Show HN: Discreet dead man's switch for victims of domestic abuse

#116

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You can expect all you want, I expect you’ll be disappointed. The goal to keep the web in that languid state is of the same ilk of the buggy whip. It’ll have archaic use cases, but the numbers won’t make sense for a lot of if not most future endeavours.

Opine all you like, it won't stop us from raising a stink about inaccessible websites.

Inaccessible sites as in doesn’t work with screen readers and similar? You can make websites using js and still conform to accessibility standards (wcag etc). Just like you can make inaccessible websites without js.

Re: Show HN: Discreet dead man's switch for victims of domestic abuse

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The privacy policy can be found fixed to the bottom of the website on every page (next to the copyright notice). As with any service you should assume that nothing is encrypted (even though it is) and follow other articles that I've written about how to securely maintain private information when using third party services.

So in short, the answer is "no". I don't see why anybody would ever use your unsecure service or even pay for it.

The answer is no to which question? I'd appreciate some benefit of the doubt since you don't know anything about the service and you don't seem to have read any of the associated documentation.
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