McAfee Deadman Trigger

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It would take about 30 minutes to write a trigger using Google's trends tool. It has a CSV (Excel spreadsheet) option, you just read the numbers which are 0 or 1, up
until McAfee dies, then they shoot up to 100, etc.

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I just got an error 429 (too many requests).

yay

Could someone explain this?

you set up a REST call to

[link to trends.google.com (secure)]

You execute it once per week.

You read the count value which is between 0 and 1.


On the day that McAfee died, there was a huge surge in google searches for "Mcafee death", the count shot up to 100,
which is the highest value in Google's range.

the next time you poll that url, it sets off whatever deadman action you've set up in code.