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Website Lets You Send a Post-Rapture E-Mail to Friends 'Left Behind' | Threat Level from Wired.com
by Decius at 8:55 am EDT, Jun 4, 2008 |
For just $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture... The e-mails will be triggered when three of the site's five Christian staffers "scattered around the U.S." fail to log in for six days in a row -- a system that incorporates a nice margin of safety, should two of the proprietors turn out to be unrepentant sinners or atheists.
Exploitive? Yeah, but its still nicely executed. |
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RE: Website Lets You Send a Post-Rapture E-Mail to Friends 'Left Behind' | Threat Level from Wired.com
by noteworthy at 6:40 pm EDT, Jun 4, 2008 |
Decius wrote: For just $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture... The e-mails will be triggered when three of the site's five Christian staffers "scattered around the U.S." fail to log in for six days in a row -- a system that incorporates a nice margin of safety, should two of the proprietors turn out to be unrepentant sinners or atheists.
Exploitive? Yeah, but its still nicely executed.
This idea, if not this particular instance, was covered back in 2005 when it was featured on the Daily Show. The business model for Russell Rasche was that you pay a one-time legal fee to amend your last will and testament to include a "Rapture Clause". |
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RE: Website Lets You Send a Post-Rapture E-Mail to Friends 'Left Behind' | Threat Level from Wired.com
by Mike the Usurper at 1:30 pm EDT, Jun 5, 2008 |
Decius wrote: For just $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture... The e-mails will be triggered when three of the site's five Christian staffers "scattered around the U.S." fail to log in for six days in a row -- a system that incorporates a nice margin of safety, should two of the proprietors turn out to be unrepentant sinners or atheists.
Exploitive? Yeah, but its still nicely executed.
Were I someone to advocate doing things that are of questionable legality (which I'm not especially) I'm thinking this would be the perfect system to do a web attack on. The admins get blocked from their hosting server, the deadman's switch goes off, and out go the Rapture emails! "Ha ha! You didn't get Raptured sinner!" Good thing I'm not 1337. |
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