Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails

Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails by davycro on Sunday April 06, 2014 @08:03AM (#7540685)

I just tested this service with gmail and it did in fact work. Pluto sends an image that contains the body of the message. After about 30 seconds the image is replaced with another that says "this message has expired."

A very remarkable hack! Especially since Gmail caches images on their own proxy servers. I wonder how long until Google finds a way to prevent this?

Here's some background information about the founders. One is a CS grad from Stanford, and former Google employee-- http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/4/2/law-school-email-...

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Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails by ceejayoz on Sunday April 06, 2014 @08:35AM (#7540746)

> A very remarkable hack! Especially since Gmail caches images on their own proxy servers. I wonder how long until Google finds a way to prevent this?

I don't think they cache. It's more an issue of privacy, HTTPS assets, malware checking, etc.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.htm...

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Re:Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails by mantrax4 on Sunday April 06, 2014 @10:41AM (#7541090)

An image. Excuse me, but that's not a remarkable hack, that's just B.S. hack, which can't be fairly called sending an "email".

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