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#1 User is offline   Jaspossum 

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Post icon  Posted 22 September 2004 - 07:22 PM

:angry: The legal implications of self-destructing e-mail

According to an article by Laurie Varendorff, an Australian records management expert, Microsoft and IBM have developed software that enables creators of e-mail messages to have tremendous control over their messages, even after they have been sent.





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Posted 22 September 2004 - 07:26 PM

Wow, way to kindof lose freedoms....

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Posted 22 September 2004 - 07:34 PM

More scary stuff
better than Halloween

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Posted 22 September 2004 - 09:02 PM

Yes scary! And weird!

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Posted 23 September 2004 - 06:52 AM

Self-destructing email comes up every few years. No chance it'll become universal. If the self-destruction trigger hooks into the email client, people will use different clients. If the mail isn't readable with other clients, people won't use the self-destruction feature. If it requires a change to the email platform (e.g., SMTP) it's dead on arrival; no way they're going to be able to convince every MTA to adopt it.

The bit about Words documents and whatnot will happen, and limited use of self-destructing email is likely, but DRM is probably too complex for most people to use.

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Posted 23 September 2004 - 01:46 PM

Yes but perfect for Spys. OOmacmarauder is on the case.
(throws laptop out the window)
BOOM!

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Posted 23 September 2004 - 03:43 PM

What's so scary about it? M$ has the self destructing OS. Windows, oooppppssss.
**covers mouth with hand**

Did I say that.
:D

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Posted 23 September 2004 - 04:23 PM

LOL
Too True, Too True.

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Posted 23 September 2004 - 08:39 PM

mikex, on Sep 23 2004, 04:43 PM, said:

What's so scary about it? M$ has the self destructing OS. Windows, oooppppssss.
**covers mouth with hand**

Did I say that.
:D

M

Booom
Mikex's systems blow up from self destructing windows

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Posted 24 September 2004 - 08:30 AM

I figured it out.

There is an internal timer. This timer, once triggered, will start the destruction after six months.

It's a plot by M$ for you to go back to their update site, where they secretly harvest the raw data(that you thought was destroyed) from your machine. Email addys, SS#, bank account numbers, and yes even the porn you accidently downloaded that one time. wink wink.

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Posted 24 September 2004 - 10:15 AM

M$ do something wrong and entirely for thier own gain. Nahhhh :P :rolleyes:
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