Well, people that I expect would have had awesome dead mans switches seem to have been taken down regardless and no switch activated. Assange comes to mind. The guy literally had EVERYTHING on everyone, yet there he is.... Dragged out of an embassy like a homeless wretch and now starving and having his brain jelllyfied in permanent solitary confinement. I think the emails comments are more to get out ahead of them being released. You say they were hacked and then say obviously the mails have now been tampered with and any information in them can be plausibly denied.