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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 DannyB on Wednesday May 02 2018, @03:32PM
In the 80's and 90's I was a card carrying Apple fanboy. I owned probably about $15,000 worth of Apple equipment (or more). And that was in 1990's dollars. This was back when Apple was a great company. Innovative. When the rest of the entire computer industry was, as Byte Magazine put it, the history of the microcomputer industry is one big effort to keep up with Apple.
Since OS X, Apple is an entirely different company. I gave it a try. Didn't like. And there was this new Linux toy I became interested in.
A friend offered me a free iPhone in about 2008. Oh, doesn't work with Linux. Must have iTunes and thus Mac or Windows. But I would want to develop for it, so, oh, can only use Mac. And have to pay Apple for the privilege of developing. Have to get blessing from Apple to even install my own code onto my own device. Have to pay Apple annually to put an app into iTunes? No thanks!
Soon I was playing with Android. It used, at the time, and still can, use Eclipse -- which I still use every day. Runs on Linux, Windows, Mac. Uses the same language I already know. In fact a lot of Java technologies and libraries I already know. I don't need anybody's permission to write code. Or to put my code onto my device. Only a one time smaller than Apple fee to put apps into the play store.
As for compatibility. Apple seems, to me, an outsider, to be constantly changing connectors and cables. And the new cables always come with an Apple-high price. Then soon they are obsolete for the next generation of cables and connectors.
Apple systems become obsolete artificially quick. A friend was telling me, some years ago, how the latest Safari browser would suddenly only work on the newest OS X. And the OS X would stop supporting old hardware awfully quick. Before that hardware's time had come. So if you wanted the latest browser, you need the latest OS, and thus new hardware at an accelerated rate. No thanks!
Apple's patent lawsuits didn't put them in my good graces either. Bouncy scrolling. Slide to unlock. You've got to be kidding. In one foreign court Apple argued that Samsung could have chosen not to make their tablet so thin, light, nor with such small bezels. Really? Thin and light weight are now Apple exclusives?
Apple does not play well with others. It seems to me that Apple deliberately introduces incompatibility when possible, when it would not put Apple at a disadvantage.
And why not? Apple fanboys always come back for more abuse! And they seem to love it!
No thanks!
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.