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Why You Need a Digital ‘Dead Man’s Switch’ (lifehacker.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ooli to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stopping AWS instances would be handy, but your idea to slag the drives is unnecessary.

Just set up full disk encryption for everything.

You die -> no key -> no data

[–] CosmicTurtle 1 points 1 year ago

Got to go nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.