If you listen to Brent Barry with headphones his lisp will begin to tear you apart . <| sep |> Looks like I learnt some Japanese today ! <| sep |> A proper dead man switch is highly redundant , but what redundancy can overcome the powers of the NSA , GCHQ and the like ? I ' m pretty certain that the first thing TPTB did was mapping out the complete social web of Assange starting from his childhood . While restricted geographically , a normal person alone can stop the flow of any information from that building by cutting some wires and deploying jammers . Dealing with associates in the meatspace is even easier torture , life threats , etc . I can only hope that some clever people are working on decentralized , blockchain based proof of life already .