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Send Self Destructing E-mails

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Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

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Post by partha-shah »

dingaling wrote: post #4

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 meta…

Freemium model appears to be allowing this else downloading can be easily stopped from wget and other downloaders. ofcourse screenshot is the option. ;)

Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

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Post by 7952 »

What apps like this do is create social pressure on people to not copy things. If you use SnapChat it is obvious that you want the communication to be treated with more "sensitivity" than a Facebook post.

The common complaint that it is impossible to self destruct data is obvious to most people. If it is technically impossible to make something un-shareable then the only thing you have left is social convention.

Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

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Post by riquito »

eksith wrote: post #18
pyalot2 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it scrolls trough the lines, so screenshotting that is difficult.

There are a few plugins for FF available that capture the whole screen. Not sure of any quirks though.

Menu File -> print -> print to file. You just got a nice pdf. No need of extensions.

Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

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Post by andyhmltn »

Everyone's pointing out that these can be saved and they address this in their FAQ. It seems the purpose is not to stop the other person viewing the message more than once on their end (snapchat-ish) but to stop emails being recorded by email providers/governments.

EDIT: Looking through their privacy statement:

"Hence messages are to be sent at the risk of the user. Information such as messages, time, date, name of the receiver and sender are also logged by us. We also collect and use aggregated or de-identified information."

IANAL but that looks to me that they are storing messages?

Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

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Post by zapu »

andyhmltn wrote: post #26

Everyone's pointing out that these can be saved and they address this in their FAQ. It seems the purpose is not to stop the other person viewing the message more than once on their end (snapchat-ish) but to stop emails being recorded by email providers/governments. EDIT: Looking through their privacy statement: "Hence messages are to be sent at the risk of the user. Information such as messages, time, date, name of t…

But with minimal effort, they can be, but it would have to be somewhat targetted attack against this particular service.

Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

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Post by eksith »

riquito wrote: post #25
eksith wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a few plugins for FF available that capture the whole screen. Not sure of any quirks though.

Menu File -> print -> print to file. You just got a nice pdf. No need of extensions.

Which cannot be opened in SumatraPDF (the only reader I'll install since it's open source) for some reason. Besides, an image is a lot easier to share, plus I don't need a reader.
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