Plausible Deniability Service

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A service which deletes any data stored with it within a configurable time period unless you check in. (optionally it could do the opposite and email it out)

Does it already exist? Any takers? It's like the only application that doesn't have to be used to be of use.

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Problem is... how do you trust the service not to make its own backups of your data before deleting it?

Though I guess you could still encrypt everything.

Even then (1) the users would have to be diligent & savvy enough to encrypt everything themselves before passing it to the service (remember Lavabit?), and (2) the service still hoovers up your metadata.

Eh. Idk siliconc0w, it just seems like a great way for people pretending to be Jason Bourne to get into trouble for destroying evidence. Average person doesn't need the computer equiv of a bug-out bag. Encrypted hard drive upon shutdown + encrypted backups is way more than enough for the average person doing average un-Bourne stuff.

Dammit congress, you are causing enough problems already without specialized software to help you.

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