Apparently Silent Circle is also proposing such a feature now. Brian
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Rich Kulawiec <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 10:34:17PM +0700, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > Just to be clear, I am not against 1) trying to make money through > > software 2) tech startups 3) enthusiastic tech journalism and 4) > > entrepreneurs who truly want to make people's lives better. > > I concur that these are good goals, nice goals, fine goals. > > However...and to focus on one issue that Wickr and Gryphn have in common: > > > [...] setting self-destruct timers that will delete the communication > > from the recipient's phone. > > This is -- depending on how you look at it -- worthless or malware. > > If it doesn't work, then it doesn't do what it says it does and any > illusion of security it provides is just that. (My guess: it doesn't > work. It can probably be undercut at the network, OS, application > or firmware levels. And then there's "take a picture of the screen".) > > If it does work, then it does so by subverting someone's desire to > make their hardware -- their property -- work the way they wish it to. > We call that "malware". > > I'm not picking on these, per se: I can say and have said the same thing > about DRM-enforcement software: it's malware, because it endeavors to take > away control of someone's hardware and hand it over to someone else. > > But I do think it's long past time to abandon the entire concept of > "self-destructing X". I've watched many attempts to make it work > and they've all failed. > > ---rsk > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Brian Conley Director, Small World News http://smallworldnews.tv m: 646.285.2046 Skype: brianjoelconley
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