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Re:Gmail confidential mode by beatgammit on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @10:27AM (#19442537)
Anyone can screenshot or take a photo of any decrypted message. The question is when the email leaves Google's servers and whether you can trust Google with that same document.

Personally, if I had a message where I would consider a tool like this, I would just encrypt it on the client with PGP or something.

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Re:Gmail confidential mode by lodi on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:22PM (#19444444)
> Anyone can screenshot or take a photo of any decrypted message.

Yes, but ordinary decrypted messages don't claim to have superpowers like self-destructing.

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Re:Gmail confidential mode by Stuckinsofa on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:50PM (#19444787)
The person I replied to wrote that this was "algorithmically enforced". I'm just pointing out that this is incorrect.
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