[runjake]

I can see so many things go wrong with this:

- Company tanks.

- Company gets acquired, and your private data gets mined.

- Company gets hacked and database dump gets posted.

I think I'd rather stick to the old methods of sealed envelopes and trusted friends or a lawyer. It's more reliable and requires less brain time slices ("Does the comapny still exist? Has it been hacked or acquired?" etc)

[dvirsky]

Or per a single user, even if all else works well:

- Email account gets hacked, and you can't respond to emails anymore.

- Spam filter bug filters the service's emails for 3 consecutive weeks.

- You are simply hospitalized for a few weeks, maybe under anesthesia, maybe in a temporary coma, maybe some memory loss.

A "dead man switch" needs to be more robust for really sensitive stuff IMO.

[0xmohit]

Another possibility is:

- An insider misuses powers.

[pomnia]

That shouldn't be possible, everything is encrypted with the OAuth provider ids that are not stored and available only through the login ... then again SSH was broken ...

[codingdave]

Dude...

People are raising valid concerns about your product, and instead of listening and accepting early feedback from HN, you are all over this discussion, defensively arguing with everyone. Just sit back, hear what people have to say, and then decide for yourself if you want to make changes, or reject the feedback.

[joshfraser]

Then how are they going to decrypt the messages to send to your loved ones?

[pomnia]

All valid. Then again envelops tend to get lost, misplaced or simply forgotten ...