The website I yesterday night found is the proof again that almost everything, achievable by man, can be found in the internet. The project idea shows me in a very obvious way that the respond to individual human needs in some parts has moved into the world wide web.

It’s called Dead Man’s Switch but what is it for?

If anybody already got confused even by its name, don’t worry: In general a Dead Man’s switch is, as its name suggests, a switch that is automatically operated in case the human operator becomes incapacitated. For example firefighters use it when being in a burning building.

Alternatively, as some of you might have seen in the movies, the switch detonates a bomb. This is applied in suicide bombing, to trigger the explosive if the bomber is shot or overpowered.

The concept of www.deadmansswitch.net is similar:

Everyone carries valuable information in their heads. It might be about their work, financial information, etc. If anything were to happen to them, this information would be lost, unfortunately.

This is where Dead Man’s Switch comes in.

I’d like to give to a quote from the founders website about how the website works:

This is how this works. You write a few e-mails, and choose the recipients. These emails are encrypted with military-grade algorithms, so you can be sure that no-one except the intended recipient will ever read them. Your switch will email 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 emails you wrote to the recipients you specified. Sort of an “electronic will”, one could say.

You can regard the project as a system designed for people who really have paranoia or somehow are just crazy. I’ve seen lots of crazy, even useful projects in the internet therefor I just say it’s kinda funny thing. Even thought I will not use it to anytime!

Apart from that I’ve noticed that the website itself is well done and designed appealingly in terms of color