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Gmail Users Can Now Send Self-Destructing Emails

posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-you-see-me,-now-you-don't dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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/

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 01 2018, @11:19PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 01 2018, @11:19PM (#674359) Journal

    (And I've decided that my current provider has to go after 22 years of being a paying customer.)

    Send them an self-destructing email, only increase the power of the destruction payload.

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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday May 02 2018, @07:42PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Wednesday May 02 2018, @07:42PM (#674720) Journal

    You have now placed the Mission Impossible theme in my head as an earworm. Except the long burning fuse leads straight into my NIC and proceeds along the connection pathway to their server where it explodes into EMail: Impossible.

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