<Here there be spoilers>
My feeling was that it was his insurance policy. He knew too much about too many things. "They" want him dead, but as long as he has this info, and doesn't release it, they leave him alone. At least in theory. If he lets the cat out of the bag, then there's nothing to stop them from killing him. Hence the reason for the whole "dead man" computer program, that requires him to input his "password"(in the form of solving the graphic puzzle) at random intervals. If he's not alive to stop the program, the info gets released. Presumably "they" know this fact.
And to answer the next question that I see coming: "Well, if he releases the info, then there's no reason to kill him anymore, right?"
Well, no. Again, the assumption is that he knows about a great deal of things, not just this one thing, that's why they want him dead. This particular thing is the only one where he has extensive documentation that can harm them, hence it's his one and only insurance policy. Once he spends, or looses, that card, he's SOL.
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