Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail

lovetrump wrote: post #2

> It says that the recipient won’t be able to forward email content, copy and paste, download or print the email. DRM for email? that worked so great for the media industry... No thanks.

Seems like people will figure out the screenshot approach pretty quickly here.

Re: Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail

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Post by throwaway2048 » Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 2:52 PM UTC

can't wait till this is used as an excuse to break SMTP compatability.

Re: Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail

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Post by matthewaveryusa » Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 2:53 PM UTC

What a bunch of hype garbage this is. If you send something in plaintext to a server it's already game over.

If Google was serious about privacy it would pgp-encrypt everything so only the client, client-side can decrypt it, just like what protonmail does.

pfff, 'self destructing emails', what a heaping pile of razzle dazzle no-ops that is -- this is more likely subliminal advertisement for the new mission impossible movie.

Re: Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail

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Post by godelski » Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 2:54 PM UTC

So it isn't encrypted? That doesn't seem substantially more secure.

Re: Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail

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Post by kome » Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 2:54 PM UTC

Please, let's not "disrupt" the email: it's so beautiful because it's so standard. For example, google's dot rules already (ko.me@gmail.com = kome@gmail.com) make no sense and break many applications: they need to stop.

I like innovation, but to innovate email wouldn't be better to innovate in a slow and consensual way using RFC after RFC, at least in the case of email?

Re: Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail

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Post by zitterbewegung » Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 2:55 PM UTC

Honest headline:

Google is allowing you to hide emails from its public interface after a specific amount of time.