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Self-Shredding E-Mail

Posted by timothy on from the plausible-deniability dept.

yoink! writes: "I just read an article on CNN.com describing a self-shredding e-mail system. With all the persistent e-mail documents gathered by the Government in the MS Anti-Trust case, and the massive shredding of paper documents by parties in the Enron fiasco, it's no wonder people have been looking for an electronic solution to a material problem solved years ago with some cutting tools, a motor, and a garbage bag." One of the companies highlighted here was called Disappearing, Inc. when it was mentioned a few years ago, but now several others have joined the fray.

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  1. They're at it again. by epsalon · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Still corporations and individuals fail to understand a simple rule: Whatever you can see, you can store and copy. They failed to understand that with copy-prevention mechanisms, and the fail to understand it here. No crypto will help prevent seeing something that you already saw.

    And no, hardware protection still can't help. In the worst case - take a camcorder and tape your screen contents. They can't overcome that!

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  2. MS had this for years by Taliban+Lecher · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...for better use it has independent software agents called win, outlook, exchange etc.

    it even has remote control capabilities

    this post is 100% redundant