Dead Man's Switch

This same website gets posted once in a while and it drives me crazy. Do not use this service. With less than 60 seconds of looking, you can hijack people's deadmanswitch accounts with a simple CSRF on the email change API. If you have a "high value secret" and you are a normal person, lawyers work pretty well. If you have a "high value secret" and you're Ed Snow, something like this site is not a solution you should use…

This is a solution looking for a problem. Writing a will allows you to settle your financial affairs as well (or at least try). You can attach a message to your will and it's much less likely to be sent out in error. What I'd like to see is some way of easily granting access to your online accounts (eg gmail, facebook, flickr) linked to a will. You could keep all your passwords in an encrypted keychain that's synced with…

The "but" is that I will almost certainly outlive this service. I don't remember the name, but there was something similar, though a bit more built up and polished, a few years back. Seems like a good idea, so I set it up. A year or two later, it was gone. Thankfully, I'm not. I love the idea of something like this - even better if it included some digital housekeeping, deleting what I'd rather delete, and sending what I'd…

I like it, but I don't understand what you are saying about encryption: "These emails are encrypted with military-grade algorithms, so you can be sure that no-one except the intended recipient will ever read them." Aren't you able to read these messages? Aren't you going to be mailing my recipients plaintext? Aren't I sending all of these forms to you in plaintext (over http)?