Dead man's switches: how they work and when to use one

Posted by alcazar 8 hours ago

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Comment by august- 7 hours ago

Has anyone here actually set one up for personal use? Curious what the failure modes look like in practice — seems easy to accidentally trigger.

Comment by alcazar 7 hours ago

I have. It's actually quite hard to miss if you set up Signal or Telegram for the check-ins.

You can also add a friend or even yourself with another email address as the first contact to notify before it sends the final messages. This friend can ping you, and you can acknowledge before it notifies your other contacts.