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- alerting when email goes down... Dead man switch of sorts. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5kq9vj/alerting_when_email_goes_down_dead_man_switch_of/ 31 comments sysadmin
- Implementation of "dead man's switch" for sending emails only if someone passes away or disappears https://pippip.email/blog/what-final-message/ 76 comments programming
- 'I'm a dead man walking': Jihadi John tells of paranoia at being shadowed by MI5 before he went to Syria in bombshell email to Mail On Sunday http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2973823/i-m-dead-man-walking-jihadi-john-tells-paranoia-shadowed-mi5-went-syria-bombshell-email-mail-sunday.html 102 comments worldnews
- In December, a man emailed a strobing GIF to a journalist who was known to have epilepsy. The journalist suffered an 8-minute seizure. The FBI has charged the man with cyberstalking and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a-court-will-decide-if-a-gif-can-be-considered-a-deadly-weapon 4 comments technology
- Emails From A Dead Man: emails between Iraqi who worked with US forces and US Immigration Office beseeching help for family to escape Iraq after death threats starting July 2011. After constant bureaucratic vaccilation and incompetence, he and his brother are now dead, and his family still in Iraq. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/takingnames/ 11 comments worldnews