Market Admins - make a dead man's safety switch

One method that market admins could and should consider employing in the future is a dead man's switch, where you (admin) have to check into a website or specific URL every 24-48 hours and if you don't, an alert gets posted or the site goes down. This would protect against LE taking control of a site, having arrested the admin, and pretending to be the admin running the site for almost 30 days. Making this password protected would easily keep it from being cracked in the 24 hours needed to hit the switch. Even if a judge ordered a suspect produce a password, the switch would have long been triggered by then.


Comments


[17 Points] KnMn:

This idea has been thrown around since SR1. It's a bother to implement, it creates a daily chore for the admin and frankly the admin doesn't give a fuck what happens to you after they get busted. If LE really did catch Alex with his laptop open and logged in, it suggests he was under constant surveillance so they would have known about a dead man's switch too.


[12 Points] IST_Vendor:

Didn't Hansa have a 30 day dead man switch?

After 30 days with no admin login all transactions were supposed to be signed and the site taken offline. Maybe that's why the operation lasted 30 days?


[1 Points] steamboi1337:

Another use of PIN Number (EMBRACE PIN IN UPTO 100 DIGITS or even 1000 also ) and use with every transaction and on the bar where you type it make something (link alike captcha with colours and text of the link)