Subj : Re: qwk packets
To   : Digital Man
From : MRO
Date : Wed May 22 2024 03:59 pm

  Re: Re: qwk packets
  By: Digital Man to fusion on Wed May 22 2024 11:43 am

 >   Re: Re: qwk packets
 >   By: fusion to MRO on Wed May 22 2024 12:19 am
 >
 >  > if i want to be a closed-source dickhead til the last moment and ensure
 >  > my code is released after i'm dead, has anyone talked to a lawyer about
 >  > how that would work?
 >
 > There are dead-man switch sevices that can send emails when someone doesn't
 > "check-in" after a while (presumed dead), which could send a decryption key
 > to a public encrypted archive that contains the source/secrets. There's also
 > "software escrow" services, but they're going to be a more
 > expensive/elaborate solution.
 >

they could also give it to me and i'll leak it :D

 > Nothing's forever. Even archive.org could go down some day. Our best defense
 > is replication, so if every BBS had "all the files", that'd be the best
 > insurance that those files wouldn't go "dead and gone".

even then i wouldn't trust a bbses as a whole to hang onto old files.
over the years it's been websites and people who no longer run bbses where i've found the 'lost' stuff.
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