Worried about what will happen to your unsaved friends and loved ones after you are taken up in the Rapture? Now there’s a new web service called You’ve Been Left Behind that can help:
We have set up a system to send documents by the email, to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the “Rapture” of the Church. This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail to log in over a 3 day period. Another 3 days are given to fail safe any false triggering of the system.
We give you 150mb of encrypted storage that can be sent to 12 possible email addresses, in Box #1. You up load any documents and choose which documents go to who. You can edit these documents at any time and change the addresses they will be sent to as needed. Box #1 is for your personal private letters to your closest lost friends and relatives…
Now, if you happen to believe in the Rapture (the Missouri-Synod Lutherans from whom I am descended do not), the general concept here isn’t any stranger than more secular forms of postlife correspondence. Where it starts to get a little ballsy, at least from my outsider’s perspective, is with the idea that you can predict with reasonable certainty just who will be raptured. I’d love to know what the vetting process for the five team members is. (Via Andrew Sullivan.)
Update: Bruce Schneier offers his thoughts on potential security issues with the You’ve Been Left Behind site.