On: A dead man's switch for your computer?

[IkmoIkmo]

Well for one this is a post in response to the Silk Road arrests in which a DMS would've saved him. Not pointless at all.

Sure over time their methods will evolve but ask Ross if he'd rather have had a DMS or not. It'd be unequivocally yes.

If your point is 'if you're a big enough target, you're pretty much fucked whatever you do given enough time' then yes that's probably true, too.

[hotgoldminer → IkmoIkmo]

If they observe the computer locking upon you removing the FD, wouldn't they induce the connection? Unless it irrevocably makes the system inoperable, I don't see this as solving for the larger problem.