I'm sure Jesse Lovelace (of the WhoIs record) will be happy to be on a receiving end of all inquires pertaining to enforcements of "your insurance policy."
Show HN: Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch
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#12Just curious... what do you see as the use cases for this service?
Well. If you happen to be going into a high-profile meeting with a mob boss and you happen to have incriminating documents about him, upload them to Deadman and hopefully you will get out alive. :) More seriously, I think the core technology would be useful for elderly, people going on hikes into remote areas, etc.
Better yet, retain a lawyer for this purpose. The difference being that the lawyer can make determinations this site cannot. For example, you might think that a one week period is sufficient however you'd be better off with a one month period just for safety reasons as you might be stuck on some mountain or locked up with some mob boss for a week and you don't want the dead man's switch to trigger. But what if you're coming home from the mountain climbing trip or the meeting with the mob boss and you get in a car accident and in order to relieve brain swelling, doctors have you in a medically-induced coma for six weeks? Oops...
A lawyer can make such a judgment call without falling back to the binary decision of "has the time elapsed with no check-in?".
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#13"100% Secure/Durable." Okay, if you say so. Why should I trust this? Now I have to decide whether it's more likely that I get struck by lightning or you do. Well, you spent 17 whole hours on it... Sorry, I don't mean to diss your thing, it's a nice idea. I'm just sick of all the exaggerated reliability claims of these startup projects. Maybe I'm crazy, but if you claim "100% durability" on something fairly important,…
Yeah that's kind of tongue-in-cheek. It's most likely not either of those at this point. I just threw some stuff up there that a service "might" say if it was for realz.
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#14Yes, I'd gladly share my super-secret - so secret I only want it revealed when I die - stuff with some random website. No bueno. I'm sorry, but this is basically one of those services you can't really run on a hosted environment.
I think the ultimate solution is a dead man's switch that is tied to something physical, aka a password in a bank vault that unencrypts a file somewhere. Yes, you have to trust the bank, but it's unlikely the bank knows what to do with this random password.
This is what I do - all my passwords and super-secret stuff is in an encrypted file with the passphrase something I have memorized. It's also written down and stored in a secure location that my wife has access to, should something bad happen to me. I don't care if she accesses this password when I'm not dead - it's only in a secure location to prevent accidental disclosure (theft) of it.
Re: Show HN: Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch
#15Yes, I'd gladly share my super-secret - so secret I only want it revealed when I die - stuff with some random website. No bueno. I'm sorry, but this is basically one of those services you can't really run on a hosted environment. I think the ultimate solution is a dead man's switch that is tied to something physical, aka a password in a bank vault that unencrypts a file somewhere. Yes, you have to trust the bank, but…
Agreed, trust is key for a service like this. Ideally the contents need to be secure, but not so secure that you are the only one who can read them--otherwise what's the point since you're probably abducted or dead?
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#16I'm sure Jesse Lovelace (of the WhoIs record) will be happy to be on a receiving end of all inquires pertaining to enforcements of "your insurance policy."
Geez--no need to hate. This is a "cool demo" not a real service that I'm selling.
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#17"100% Secure/Durable." Okay, if you say so. Why should I trust this? Now I have to decide whether it's more likely that I get struck by lightning or you do. Well, you spent 17 whole hours on it... Sorry, I don't mean to diss your thing, it's a nice idea. I'm just sick of all the exaggerated reliability claims of these startup projects. Maybe I'm crazy, but if you claim "100% durability" on something fairly important,…
Yeah that's kind of tongue-in-cheek. It's most likely not either of those at this point. I just threw some stuff up there that a service "might" say if it was for realz.
Sorry, I only give away my reveal-only-after-death secrets to businesses that are totes for realz, not ones that are only pretending to be.
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#18Yes, I'd gladly share my super-secret - so secret I only want it revealed when I die - stuff with some random website. No bueno. I'm sorry, but this is basically one of those services you can't really run on a hosted environment. I think the ultimate solution is a dead man's switch that is tied to something physical, aka a password in a bank vault that unencrypts a file somewhere. Yes, you have to trust the bank, but…
Agreed, trust is key for a service like this. Ideally the contents need to be secure, but not so secure that you are the only one who can read them--otherwise what's the point since you're probably abducted or dead?
The point is that I don't want YOU to read this info BEFORE I'm dead. And basically there's no way to prevent that if your website contains everything needed to disclose the information.
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#19Yes, I'd gladly share my super-secret - so secret I only want it revealed when I die - stuff with some random website. No bueno. I'm sorry, but this is basically one of those services you can't really run on a hosted environment. I think the ultimate solution is a dead man's switch that is tied to something physical, aka a password in a bank vault that unencrypts a file somewhere. Yes, you have to trust the bank, but…
You are taking it a bit too seriouslly.
As it even notes on the page its 'running on free quota' - hardly something to actully be trusted with life or death information.
A cool tech demo, not a 'premium' service.
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#20"100% Secure/Durable." Okay, if you say so. Why should I trust this? Now I have to decide whether it's more likely that I get struck by lightning or you do. Well, you spent 17 whole hours on it... Sorry, I don't mean to diss your thing, it's a nice idea. I'm just sick of all the exaggerated reliability claims of these startup projects. Maybe I'm crazy, but if you claim "100% durability" on something fairly important,…
Yeah that's kind of tongue-in-cheek. It's most likely not either of those at this point. I just threw some stuff up there that a service "might" say if it was for realz.
Oh, ok, I almost figured. :)