LastSignal Is a New Open-Source Dead Man’s Switch You Can Self-Host

“A new open-source tool called LastSignal has emerged to let users run their own encrypted dead man’s switch on a self-hosted server. The software is designed for scenarios where messages should only be delivered if the sender becomes unreachable and stops responding to scheduled check-ins.”

In the past these services were usually hosted, and then after a few years the service would shut down (and hopefully you were aware of that). The other issue was you may have to leave some sensitive information that you want to pass on, and today we are more and more aware that you have to be careful when leaving such information in someone else's cloud.

So this does solve two of those issues: You are hosting it, so you can keep it available, and you have full control over the information.

Quite a bit of thought seems to have gone into it too. The project is about 3 weeks old so is pretty new still.

See https://linuxiac.com/lastsignal-is-a-new-open-source-dead-mans-switch-you-can-self-host and their open source project at https://github.com/giovantenne/lastsignal

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