> I mean what did come of John Mccaffies deadman countdown ?? - just shilling for crypto-currency buy ins ... I learned a lot from McAfee, and the supposed deadmans switches we hear about every so often. The killer feature for a consumer-ready hardware-level deadmans switch is this: Long-release switches. You buy multiple of these, and they link to your others in a private network, through a series of knockcodes on public facing obscure forums, and services like pastebin. Lets say just five of these devices are sufficient. All of them go down, and fail trying to post their payloads, during an internet outage. One or two of them are instead designated by the decentralized network as "longterm switches." Which means they keep testing for access until the www is functioning properly, and at full capacity again. And then, at a randomized later date, maybe days, maybe weeks, maybe *months* later, they post their data. Theres no way to stop this sort of setup. Theres no way to reliably predict it, or do anything about it. The feds would have to shut down the company making them, and kill or silence the company employees. And the beautiful thing is, once you're selling devices like this, you've normalized and popularized the idea. And other companies start doing it. In fact I see no reason why foreign competitors wouldn't do this themselves, especially once they see a private company doing it. Its legit a no brainer, you'd be a total fucking retard not to imitate the idea. Its one of those things, thats 1. so trivial to think up no one has really done it, and 2. so obviously advantageous to pursue, that anyone in an intelligence agency NOT attempting to empower their opponents whistleblowers in this way, shouldn't even be in their job because they're too incompetent to pursue an absolute opportunity when they see one. Information warfare is the future. Give consumers the tools to do it, be it industrial whistleblowers, NGO whistleblowers, media whistleblowers, or government whistleblowers--give them the tools to do it for you, and you don't need an army of information warfare specialists anymore. Just create the tools to allow a distributed network of citizens to do all the damage. Democratize information warfare.