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Have any legal systems weighed in on a dead man's switch?

I get the premise, where typically it's illegal to take an action that releases confidential or censored information.

But, to governments, especially ones that want to keep information secret or censored, I'm not sure that negating that sequence and failing to stop the release of information (that you willingly put in a dead man's switch) will get you out of trouble.

Unless you're dead of course. But, I've seen this process promoted for living people to release information and I'm not sure it's any better than just posting the content anonymously, but with the added risk of accidentally releasing the information.