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Google will slowly be rolling out a number of changes for consumer Gmail users and G Suite users. Some of the changes improve usability and productivity, while others are meant to maximize data and user protection. Some of the new security options should help enterprise users meed GDPR compliance needs.
[...] Gmail confidential mode will allow users to:
- Set expiration dates for emails or revoke previously sent messages
- Secure access to the contents of emails by requiring recipients to enter a password
- Restrict the recipients’ ability to forward, copy, download or print emails.
These things will be possible because these emails will not be actually downloaded in the recipients’ inbox, but will be placed on a separate page/window where their content can be viewed, and the email will show that page.
Guess I'll be switching to ProtonMail for my webmail needs, which, granted, are few.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/04/26/gmail-self-destructing-emails/
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 01 2018, @03:57PM (1 child)
And, yet, they're equipping every person on the planet with a 12MP digital camera... It's almost like the old MP3 arguments, any system you make, any system at all, can always be end-run by analog recording between the audio output and the listener's ears (or brain in the case of direct neurostim audio) connected to a generic high quality recorder. Unless you think you can control every recording device on the planet (which big media was seriously trying to do for a while), it's game over.
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(Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday May 02 2018, @10:30AM
As you say, DRM on audio is particularly comical, as audio invariably boils down to a very simple analogue wave transmitted electrically over copper. Obfuscate and encrypt the storage (Spotify, Audible) and transmission (HDCP, Netflix) all you want, go ahead and make it hard to read from the audio buffer, but that wave is getting generated eventually, or else the user can't listen.
DRM has been more successful in controlling code, than audio or video. It might be possible to jailbreak an iPhone, or clone a PS4 game, but at least it's not trivial.