Self destructing emails that gmail or the NSA cant read

Posted by mat3 on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:17PM
from the venturebeat.com dept.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/14/secretink-is-the-snapchat-of-email-and-sms-with-a-little-mission-impossible-sprinkled-in/#vb-gallery:2:860482

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Re:Self destructing emails that gmail or the NSA cant read by computer on Thursday November 14, 2013 @02:04PM (#6734611)

Sample link: https://secretink.co/read/2atelv15n5hqip59416c7c3c0q

Why does it send the decryption key to the server (presuming the data is even actually encrypted server-side)? Just use the megaupload model, where you link to an address containing a #, and then client-side javascript to decrypt.

Is it perfectly secure? Of course not, but at least then this company itself can't read them. Now there's nothing NSA-resistent about it. Just NSL secretink.

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Re:Self destructing emails that gmail or the NSA cant read by gailees on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:40PM (#6734405)

I love how we are seeing the snapchat-ization and tinder-ization of everything. LA startup scene came out of nowhere!

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