A Dead man switch doesn't get activated, it simply fails to be reset. So there is no telling what the iteration of the reset will be, or it could simply be a threat.
That's the traditional sense, as if a bomb would go off... But this is a Data dump... He's not walking around with a lever waiting to be depressed in the event he dies.
In the Digital age, a Dead Man's switch is a program which if it is not reset, would then email / publish / send data to the public.
A Dead man switch doesn't get activated, it simply fails to be reset. So there is no telling what the iteration of the reset will be, or it could simply be a threat.
That's the traditional sense, as if a bomb would go off... But this is a Data dump... He's not walking around with a lever waiting to be depressed in the event he dies.
In the Digital age, a Dead Man's switch is a program which if it is not reset, would then email / publish / send data to the public.
More on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhGGqMKmBfU&t=1s