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Send Self Destructing E-mails

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Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

#11

Post by nwh »

pyalot2 wrote: post #10

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…

Alternatively take a screenshot.

Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

#14

Post by pyalot2 »

IanCal wrote: post #5
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…

It renders it as an image which fades and they seem to only allow one get for.

Yes, but if you don't display the image, there's no get, so when you put it on a new tab, that's one get, and from there you can save it from the browser, which isn't no more additional get.

Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

#15

Post by pyalot2 »

nwh wrote: post #11
pyalot2 wrote: post #10

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…

Alternatively take a screenshot.

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

Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

#16

Post by IanCal »

pyalot2 wrote: post #14
IanCal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It renders it as an image which fades and they seem to only allow one get for.

Yes, but if you don't display the image, there's no get, so when you put it on a new tab, that's one get, and from there you can save it from the browser, which isn't no more additional get.

Yep, you can also check the original email and download the image directly.

Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

#17

Post by sarreph »

Seems like an interesting concept. It's easy to complain about the ability to screenshot/save the .GIF file; any application that tries to do this, such as SnapChat, will suffer from the same problem as there is always a way to circumvent services like this. They appeal because of their fun factor, and not a supposed ability to be ethereally secure.

Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

#19

Post by nmudgal »

pyalot2 wrote: post #10

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…

fades away via direct url (http://content.fade.li/selcouth/119a1902d...) too? but still if people can save it, they need new slogan and/or new algos because it's still being on the record.

Re: Send Self Destructing E-mails

#20

Post by 1angryhacker »

Cool idea, well executed. Has obvious flaws & security issues but it could be a bit of fun.

Anyone else find the landing page a little bit overwhelming for such a small app? All the pictures of people having a great time seem a little over the top?

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