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"This Email Will Self Destruct"
- eof 16y agoHow? Will messages really disappear out of inboxes? Or is it just an embedded image that gets deleted from the server eventually?
- jordanroher 16y agoOr an iframe, or javascript that retrieves data from a server. Fun idea, but more trouble than it's worth, given how mail clients could bork a complicated implementation.
- beej71 16y agoThe same technique might be useful for emails that change over time. Hmmm!
- arikb 16y agoThere are several techniques, some of them are: * Show in a frame on the company's server * Sends JavaScript code that retrieves the message from the server * Sends an ActiveX / Java / Flash client that displays the message from the server and resists attempts to copy/paste * Sends the file with DRM, and a client that would enforce the DRM rules Being that the website uses flash on its first page, I would hazard a guess that a Flash client is involved. I don't like to login to these sites with credentials from other sites, especially if I only want a bit of information. By the way the idea isn't new by any stretch of the word. http://readnotify.com http://readnotify.com have been at it for years. [edited for formatting]