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Untraceable Messaging Service Raises a Few Eyebrows

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the taking-the-pry-out-of-privacy dept.

netbuzz writes "A messaging service called VaporStream announced today at DEMOfall will allow any two parties to communicate electronically without leaving any record of their interaction on any computer or server. Messages cannot be forwarded, edited, printed or saved. After they're read, they're gone."

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  1. One word: by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Vaporware.

    Er..

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  2. obligatory by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A messaging service called VaporStream

    Oh, I thought it said VaporSteam, the gaming service that would allow you to play Duke Nukem Forever.

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  3. Re:not recordable by mctk · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just make sure both parties are really wasted. Cause if you don't remember it, it never happened. Right? ...RIGHT??

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  4. look at it but don't blink by icepick72 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've tried the service and it's so advanced that if I blink it diaappears. Try reading a long letter and it's like having staring contest with a fish. I hope they have patents. This thing is awesome.

  5. Re:False by Maniakes · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's the clever bit. See, since humans are generally the weak link in security setups (see Rubber Hose Cryptanalysis), the system doesn't show the information to any humans. In fact, it never leaves the sender's computer! It's transcribed directly into write-only memory.

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  6. Re:There's always a way. by edmac3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sceenshots can be so easily be faked; who would accept screenshots as proof of anything?

  7. I like this quote by DK · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The company doesn't see VaporStream being a useful tool for terrorists because it's built for one-to-one conversations, not one to a group."

    Now THAT's a convincing argument.

  8. DRM can make screenshots impossible by roystgnr · · Score: 4, Funny

    So all this program has to do is encrypt itself with a private key only available to DRM operating systems which support the "no screenshots of me" API. Hole plugged.

    No, the real threat here is from Muslim extremists. I've heard rumors that an Egyptian named Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn al-Haitham is working on technology to foil such electronic protection mechanisms. If his "qamara" experiments succeed, all hope of being able to send unsavable or unforwardable messages may be lost.

  9. Re:There's always a way. by xQx · · Score: 4, Funny

    shhhh! don't tell anyone!

    I've got off three copyright cases so far by forging emails giving me express permission from the author to use the software.

    And I'm halfway through a settlement case for my last de-facto relationship relying on an email 'she sent me' which explains that I can have everything!

    I figure if the RIAA can do it, it's not imorral for me to do it. Besides, this Bitch deserves it.