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The system, says Hamilton, is designed to be \u201canti-fragile,\u201d meaning it depends on no party\u2019s good will to achieve its end. Nobody but the originator and recipient have access to the contents of the file, all other parties are financially incentivized to cooperate, and redundancies ensure the payload is always available. \u201cLittle strings of data control our lives,\u201d says Hamilton. Because humans are \u201cgooey\u201d\u2014that is, unreliable and prone to mistakes\u2014the only sensible protection for those strings is cryptography, he adds.<\/p>\n

There are various other ways, says Hamilton, that Sarcophagus might be applied outside of a crypto setting. A digital dead man\u2019s switch could be used by a whistleblower to release incriminating material or by a dissident or journalist who suspects a threat to their life, as a kind of SOS. In a more mundane context, it could be used to pass account credentials from one generation of employees to the next.<\/p>\n

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