Help How to secure your social media and communicators from being reviewed by the police after ctb

[Boudika]

In my country, the law requires the police to investigate after a person ctb, checking whether they committed suicide by cyber bulling or were persuaded to do so by someone. How could I protect myself from this? I.e. I don't want them to get to my discord and messenger, because several of my online friends knew about my suicidal thoughts and could get in trouble for not notifying anyone.

 

[nessun_nome]

Close the accounts. Delete them if you can.

Factory reset any devices or otherwise destroy them.

 

[EternalShore]

In my country, the law requires the police to investigate after a person ctb, checking whether they committed suicide by cyber bulling or were persuaded to do so by someone. How could I protect myself from this? I.e. I don't want them to get to my discord and messenger, because several of my online friends knew about my suicidal thoughts and could get in trouble for not notifying anyone.

It's really nice of you to protect your friends! :) Just in case you survive and want to talk to them again, I wouldn't delete the accounts, but I would make sure all your history/cookies are cleared~
There's also some data that your browsers store somewhere in your C drive even if you delete all your cookies, but I forget where to find it now! >_<

 

[MyChoiceAlone]

not sure what you're worried about. will they investigate a ctb as much? change your passwords to something complex? either way, i feel like your isp tracks you no matter what.

 

[Boudika]

not sure what you're worried about. will they investigate a ctb as much? change your passwords to something complex? either way, i feel like your isp tracks you no matter what.

Yeah, we have a provision in the law that suicide until confirmed is treated as being murdered by someone. And I know, so I don't know what I should do to protect them. They both work in places where you can't have jailtime in your recorda, and for not notifying the appropriate services of my attempt can go to jail for up to 10 years

 

[MyChoiceAlone]

can't you just leave a note? more important are your feelings. nice of you to think about your friends. i seriously doubt anything will happen to them.

 

[NoLoveNoHope]

It depends how far they'll go to recover accounts. The best option would be to change the passwords to a random string of characters and change your email address to a foreign provider like ProtonMail.

Scheduling them for deletion before you CTB would also be a good idea because incase you fail you can recover the accounts pretty easily by just logging in.

This should be enough, however if you have extra concerns you can reinstall whatever operating system you're using and optionally erase all data by overwriting it to prevent recovery (probably not necessary and will take hours). You'd also want to encrypt wherever you store your passwords, I recommend KeePassXC since it does it automatically and it has a password generator.