Thursday, October 16, 2008

Dead Man's Switch

Dead Man's Switch
"This is how this works. You write a few e-mails, and choose the recipients. These emails are encrypted with military-grade algorithms, so you can be sure that no-one except the intended recipient will ever read them. Your switch will email you every so often, asking you to show that you are fine by clicking a link. If something were to... happen... to you, your switch would then send the emails you wrote to the recipients you specified. Sort of an "electronic will", one could say."

So there. If you are an average guy with a will to be published or a message to be sent to your loved ones when the final curtain comes down or if you are one of those spy/whistle-blower types going to a meeting with your rival from which you might never return; Let Dead Man's Switch be your insurance.