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    Dead man’s switches for defensive blackmail are a common plot device in crime novels, but in real life, they’re vanishingly rare.

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      Rare, but relatively easy to set up. Unfortunately they do incentivise those who want to see the information released to cause them to be triggered, so it’s something of a balancing act.