[And crooks rejoice!] Gmail's redesign may use 'Confidential Mode' for added security
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/13/gmail-redesign-confidential-mode/ The Verge has a new tip. Google is introducing a Confidential Mode, which will allow Gmail senders to prevent recipients from forwarding, copying, downloading or printing certain emails. Gmail is also adding more features that will appeal to business users. You can set a a passcode to open emails, generated by SMS, and set an expiration date on emails. These are, of course, in addition to the features that have already been leaked, such as snooze, smart replies and the different views of Gmail. These are certainly interesting new security features. It's unclear how they will work as of right now. As The Verge notes, Gmail's restrictions on copying, downloading or printing will probably not prevent someone from taking a screenshot of an email (and certainly won't stop them from taking a photo), and it's unclear how any of this will apply to those who use IMAP and POP3 to access Gmail. - - - I would assume that such "messages" would have to remain within the Gmail ecosystem, and that they wouldn't be "email" at all in the sense that they could be sent to non-participating external systems, or if they were, there'd have to be a warning to the sender that some recipients were not in the "Gmail Destructo-Loop" -- or something like that. So here's the plan. You take your phone and get a nice photo of the message that's supposed to self-destruct. Then you run it back through a handy OCR service and you have text again to forward to all your friends! Not exactly rocket science. Since Google knows this, they'd have to frame this feature with all kinds of provisos to be honest about it. It will be interesting to see how they handle this if this feature ever sees the non-dogfood light of day. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
