Finally, DRM for email!
And it works with MSIE6, too!
Send Self Destructing E-mails
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Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails
#32I think most people so far are missing who the target audience is.
and who are they? Serious question.
Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails
#33I have a sudden urge to send an email to dowhile@fade.li.fade.li
This will just email dowhile@fade.li in the end.
Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails
#34Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails
#35Hmm, 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. ;)
You can't easily stop wget. It's impossible to distinguish between Firefox accessing the image, and wget / curl / whatever accessing the image with Firefox's user agent string (and changing the user agent string in these utilities is just a simple flag)
Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails
#36Earlier 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.
Not a plugin but a windows program (don't know if it works on win7, I run linux now) called faststone capture can move the scrollbar and take screenshots. The current version (7.6) is paid:
http://www.faststone.org/FSCapturerDownload.htm
but an old version (5.3) that always worked well for me is free:
Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Freemium model appears to be allowing this else downloading can be easily stopped from wget and other downloaders. ofcourse screenshot is the option. ;)
You can't easily stop wget. It's impossible to distinguish between Firefox accessing the image, and wget / curl / whatever accessing the image with Firefox's user agent string (and changing the user agent string in these utilities is just a simple flag)
You could get clever by testing on the server whether the other headers are consistent with the User Agent (e.g. Accept).
But yeah, ultimately it's a losing game because you're trusting the client not to be compromised.
Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't easily stop wget. It's impossible to distinguish between Firefox accessing the image, and wget / curl / whatever accessing the image with Firefox's user agent string (and changing the user agent string in these utilities is just a simple flag)
You could get clever by testing on the server whether the other headers are consistent with the User Agent (e.g. Accept). But yeah, ultimately it's a losing game because you're trusting the client not to be compromised.
neat tool: chrome developer tools > network > rightclick a resource > copy as Curl > paste on command line
allows you to replay a request, complete with all cookies and the exact same headers.
yeah, aware this isn't what's wanted here, single request image etc etc ... but relevant.
Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails
#39I did not realize you could setup a MX record for a wild-card subdomain. It would seem like there are lots of applications for that setup - how come it's not something I've seen dome more?
Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could get clever by testing on the server whether the other headers are consistent with the User Agent (e.g. Accept). But yeah, ultimately it's a losing game because you're trusting the client not to be compromised.
neat tool: chrome developer tools > network > rightclick a resource > copy as Curl > paste on command line allows you to replay a request, complete with all cookies and the exact same headers. yeah, aware this isn't what's wanted here, single request image etc etc ... but relevant.
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