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I like the idea, but ...

As a web service?!

I'd love to see that as a free software daemon, or cronjob, which I can run on one of my website's servers.

However, storing very sensitive information at a central place - a place which aims to collect sensitive information from many other people? Well, that's an invitation to abuse! How could I ever trust my most sensitive data to such a system?



Well it should be software you run on your own machines. But that wouldn't suit the Web 2.0 fad.


Why not just write it, rather than complain?


I write lots of stuff that runs on the user's machine. Is there a particular application you'd like?


Encrypt it?


It would be great of "deadmansswitch.net" would just handle encrypted data without ever having a look at it. However, as it is desinged now, it's not me who encrypts my stuff, but they. There is absolutely no chance I could ever trust such a service.

But assume they would hand encryption over to their users. Then, their service would become pretty pointless, as they would be nothing more than yet another data storage service.

Either way, I don't see any sense in that service, except as a very well-desinged satire on the current everything-as-a-webservice hype.




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