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[samstave]

What about a dead-mans switch app on any phone where if you dont type in the code within a time definable to you - the phone shall be wiped?

[jrockway → samstave]

Destruction of evidence, a felony!

Except the person in question is already dead, so there isn't much punishment the government can mete out here.