Dead Man's Switch

Bad things happen. Sometimes, they happen to you. If something does happen, you might wish there was something you had told the people around you. Dead Man's Switch lets you write a few e-mails and choose the recipients. These emails are stored privately until they're sent. Dead Man's Switch will e-mail you every so often, asking you to show that you are fine by clicking a link. If something were to... happen... to you, your switch would then send the e-mails you wrote to the recipients you specified.

Dead Man's Switch is a useful tool to provide information to others if you become incommunicado (or dead), but there are things you should consider. First, information that you store with Dead Man's Switch is available to the administrators of the site. Sensitive information should be encrypted before it is added to your Dead Man's Switch. This of course means that your intended recipients will need to be able to decrypt and read the messages they receive. If the service provider (Dead Man's Switch) goes out of business your messages might never be delivered. And, if you lose access to the e-mail with the link you are supposed to click to show that you are still alive, your messages might be sent before you want them to be.