timebomb emails

[waider]

I can't see any good use for this: emails that self-destruct after a time limit. I can see lots of bad uses, mainly revolving around destroying evidence. I also wonder about the forwarding-prevention - it seems like currently, if you forward an email in the usual thoughtless, top-quoted manner, you're inadvertently attaching a pretty useful audit trail to the message as well. Now, you'll just cut and paste the body into a new mail, forcing you to consider not, say, including any of the headers.

Microsoft: enablers of plausible deniability.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I know a kid who was working on that crap. Some businesses seem to really want that as a feature, mostly because of liability issues combined with a painful brand of ignorance that only some management people can have.

As i've said before, it'll all end in tears.

[waider.livejournal.com]

I've just thought of another fun use for it: mailing out temporary activation keys. not only does the software on your disk expire at some point, but the mail that contained the key also expires. *bamf*

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

Maybe if we're lucky that chain of events will continue: the saleslime that suckered someone into paying for the technology will disappear in the night, followed by the company that sells it being delisted from NASDAQ and filing for bankruptcy.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

People are already trying to send me these things at Columbia, hotbed of academic paranoia that it is.

I find it annoying and have set my filters to autoreject them.