Kill switches aren't 100% foolproof. That's why he sat in prison for as long as he did. He couldn't do fuck-all about it while locked away and probably didn't even have the time to activate it to begin with as he probably thought he was totally fine up until they came for him. Once they successfully deactivated it and secured all the incriminating evidence he had stashed, they gave the go-ahead and had him killed. Simple as that. That's why his death was so brazen and obvious, because the perpetrators no longer had a damned thing to worry about.
A killswitch is never "activated". It's, "always active".
The user needs to constantly perform some action to prevent the switch from closing the circuit and taking action.
I.e., "I send an email every morning to [email protected]" and this resets the kill switch to another 26 hours (+2 hours so I don't have to keep waking up earlier and earlier!).
To "activate" the kill switch? All I need to do is, fail to send that email one morning. A more robust switch might require two or three "time windows" to pass before dropping the data.
A killswitch is never "activated". It's, "always active". I fully understand how deadman switches work and they absolutely do not need to be "running" 24/7. There are a million reasons why you might need to temporarily disable it which I won't even bother delving into, because anyone with half a brain should be able to sit there for a couple minutes and think of at least a handful of valid reasons why you wouldn't want it always on.
I mean, James O'Keefe himself just fucking said he just "activated" his switch so clearly you're talking out your ass.
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21205743? ago
I find it hard to believe that Epstein didn't have a kill switch somewhere to drop info.
21207413? ago
Kill switches aren't 100% foolproof. That's why he sat in prison for as long as he did. He couldn't do fuck-all about it while locked away and probably didn't even have the time to activate it to begin with as he probably thought he was totally fine up until they came for him. Once they successfully deactivated it and secured all the incriminating evidence he had stashed, they gave the go-ahead and had him killed. Simple as that. That's why his death was so brazen and obvious, because the perpetrators no longer had a damned thing to worry about.
21208462? ago
Nonono, you're "not even wrong".
A killswitch is never "activated". It's, "always active".
The user needs to constantly perform some action to prevent the switch from closing the circuit and taking action.
I.e., "I send an email every morning to [email protected]" and this resets the kill switch to another 26 hours (+2 hours so I don't have to keep waking up earlier and earlier!).
To "activate" the kill switch? All I need to do is, fail to send that email one morning. A more robust switch might require two or three "time windows" to pass before dropping the data.
21212633? ago
I mean, James O'Keefe himself just fucking said he just "activated" his switch so clearly you're talking out your ass.