Suchir Balaji, listed in court filing as having ‘relevant documents’ about copyright violation, died on 26 November

Suchir Balaji, listed in court filing as having ‘relevant documents’ about copyright violation, died on 26 November

  • winterayars@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    22 hours ago

    Dead man’s switch that uploads a message to YouTube that’s basically “If you’re seeing this then i have been assassinated by the company. I did not kill myself, I was determined to testify. Because I will now no longer be able to, what follows is my testimony” and then do a tell all. Could work it out with a lawyer in advance, too.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      6·
      20 hours ago

      This isn’t a bad idea.

      You would need some external secret party that would quietly leak it.

      • winterayars@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        You could just have a server up and running, paid several months in advance, that did it automatically but you might want a human (i would think a lawyer) to also be involved.

    • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      21 hours ago

      Mate, it is extremely common for suicidal people to deny those thoughts. Here some stats, about 50 % deny it shortly before they actually do it. So saying “I will no kill myself” is really useless.

      • winterayars@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        21 hours ago

        I’m not sure that’s generalizable to this scenario. That’s also pretty time constrained. Besides that, was there any evidence this person was depressed or otherwise suicidal? Maybe there is but i sure don’t know if it.