Emails that self destruct arrive
Mission impossible possible
By Nick Farrell: Monday 25 September 2006, 15:29
A START-UP communications outfit is flogging a web-based email
system that destroys the message after it has been read.
VaporStream system from Void Communications, which apparently is
not a euphemism for VapourWare, works from an encrypted
webpage.
A punter visits the site, lists the person they want to talk too
and chats away.
The names of the parties, or their messages are not stored anywhere
and details can't be cut and pasted. Instead it is held on a
temporary memory segment in a VaporStream server. When it is
delivered, the server forgets that it ever existed.
The software is going onshow for the first time at the DEMOfall
tech show in San Diego on Tuesday and become will hit the shops in
October.