Send Self Destructing E-mails

Didn't work with an email to my Fastmail account.

Hmm, so the e-mails are routed through their infrastructure and then ( presumably ) some form of magic is injected and delivered to the recipient.

Upon opening, the content 'fades-out' and fade.li assure us that they delete the content from their systems.

/me tries with disposable account

Aha, it renders the mail content as images. A bunch of basic HTML with the GIFs inline, I used wget to pull them down but the metadata is corrupted. I'll poke at them...

Aha2: animated GIF. Frame-by-frame 'writing' of the e-mail, then blanking-out. Presumably they delete the GIF from their server when it has been served once.

Here's one ( safe for work! )

http://imgur.com/jS2cvMr

The title itself is a paradox and any IT person should see that.

First rule of piracy people, if you can read, see or hear it then you can copy it.

The tone suggests this is playful, which is fine, since this is in no way secure. The FAQ has a few misleading claims though

> Your email's content is encrypted using banking-grade algorithms (256 AES) and securely stored on our servers.

> No traces.

> We were also growing tired of news about privacy issues and claims of government reading our emails behind our backs… it all seemed very Orwellian

It feels like you're kind of suggesting these things are actually secure.

1) Open email in gmail (do not press display images)

2) Options on the right "Show Original"

3) Copy the URL that goes like: http://content.fade.li/selcouth/... to a new tab

4) Save image as

5) ...

6) Profit!

For added fun, somebody please go and register unfade.li, if you forward a mail there, it OCR scans the image and sends you back the text.

P.S. sending email as images is one of the most stupid ideas that seems to keep cropping up. It's not in any way making it impossible to get at the email, but it just makes it extremely inconvenient to reply inline, or for differently abled people to read your mail.