Dead Man's Switch
After the amazingly successful omnisync, it is once again time to present you of another creation of the inimitable Poromenos Studios.
This time, it’s Dead Man’s Switch. As you’re probably aware, everyone carries valuable information in their heads. It might be about their work, financial information, etc. If anything were to happen to them, this information would be lost, unfortunately.
This is where Dead Man’s Switch comes in. You enter a few emails you want to have sent, and the site will send you a notification email every month, urging you to tell it that you are well. If you don’t answer a few of these emails, everything you have written gets sent out to the recipients you selected.
It’s a sort of will/life insurance. One needs to plan for the future, after all.
This is a great service CONCEPT. It's not very good as a service yet. It would be better if it focused more on getting you to /make/ those critical documents, encrypt them, and traverse the social network links needed to prepare the other half of those encrypted channels. Then there could be a standard set of features that any deadmans'sswitch would need to comply with.
Obviously if you are serious about making this part of yor will-and-testament process, you'd be willing to invest the kind of personal relationship-building, money, or time in making sure that an entire body of work and knowledge can guarantee that these messages will go out. It would be senseless to spend a few hundred hours in planning the effects and side effectrs and choosing the recipients, another dozen devising the documents themselves, and then use an anonymous service with no depth or guarantee of service.
With thanks for the idea,
Submitted by SJ (not verified) on Tue, 06/01/2009 - 21:31.SJ
I completely agree. You would, however, need to spend a considerable sum to use a website like this, which I don't know if people are ready to do yet...
Submitted by Stavros on Tue, 06/01/2009 - 21:48.That's actually how i found your site. I have a few suggestions for the service, and would be glad if you were to contact me to discuss them.
Submitted by Ethan (not verified) on Sun, 22/02/2009 - 17:46.-ethan
Sure thing, just leave your contact details or email me at support@ dead man's switch.
Submitted by Stavros on Sun, 22/02/2009 - 20:15.