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Re: Scope for self-destructing email?

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 15 August 2017 01:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: Scope for self-destructing email?
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On 15/08/2017 08:05, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> On 8/14/2017 12:53 PM, Matthias Merkel wrote:
>> I think however that this system would mostly find use in systems like 
>> governments or maybe communication between whistleblowers and news 
>> outlets. In these cases you can trust the receipient server to delete 
>> the message when being told to do so.
> 
> Which governments can actually be trusted to this extent?
> 
> More seriously, how could you have any confidence at all that
> unauthorized (or even "lawful intercept") copies of the message
> would be deleted?

You can't. I have destroyed Message-ID: <CACZ1GipivEf31iHchaM1OPFQF4QkfVRGVNsY_vVx=J8oFZ0JZA@mail.gmail.com>.
Is that true? How do you know it's true?

    Brian

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