In a lot of movies people often say if I don’t type a password in then “the” files will be emailed, emails sent to journalists, or the site will go online, etc. exposing whoever it is they are in danger from or blackmailing.

I always thought it was a cool concept, and it probably isn’t hard for someone who knows what they’re doing to set up some script for that, but I was wondering if there was a self hosted app that you could set up that let you set timers, say for a day, and if a password isn’t entered to cancel it, it sends files to an email (maybe configured to hit all news outlets/journalists), deploys a website at a domain thats preconfigured/setup, tweets something, etc.

  • trillnsfw@lemmynsfw.comOP
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    2 days ago

    Feels like it makes sense to self host such an app instead of going through some corporation

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      2 days ago

      Depends on your priorities.

      But if your priority is to get the info out there, then you want both, so that it can’t be stopped just by your ISP cutting your service or losing power, nor by the service you’re using shutting down or deleting your message