[119091] in Cypherpunks
Re: Worthless Disappearing [Self-Destruct E-mail]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Broiles)
Thu Oct 14 16:24:37 1999
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:09:51 -0700
From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
To: Sunder <sunder@sunder.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Message-ID: <19991014130951.B17960@ideath.parrhesia.com>
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In-Reply-To: <380507B2.24B1F856@sunder.net>; from Sunder on Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 06:29:06PM -0400
Reply-To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 06:29:06PM -0400, Sunder wrote:
> This is totally worthless no matter how it is implemented.
>
> As long as the email can be displayed on a system on which you have
> administrative control over the display, you can capture the email display.
> Simple as taking pictures, or using a VCR to record your Playstation games.
It's not "totally worthless"; it should not be intended as providing
protection against deliberate archiving, but as protecting against
accidental retention of something which by policy should have been
deleted.
--
Greg Broiles
gbroiles@netbox.com
