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Edited on Tue Oct-18-05 02:07 AM by chalky
Further down in the Wired (they're pretty credible, right?) article, there's this:
Other products, notably that of Disappearing Inc. which has similar erasable email ability, were launched earlier this year. Disappearing Inc.'s product, by contrast, is server-based. This allows company administrators to set a company-wide policy in which email expiration and deletion is controlled by the server itself, protecting the company at large.
Disappearing Inc.'s server-based design also allows it to be integrated with the widely used and familiar email software Microsoft Outlook.
In an age where the FBI's email-sniffing Carnivore system and email correspondence play prominent roles in court cases, security-sensitive communicators are motivated to think twice about their electronic-message trails.
And yeah, an employee can take a snapshot of an email...if they know that it will have significance in the future. I can't tell you how many emails I've saved in my archives, only to whip them out later and have them save my ass when I was able to produce them. Not real excited about the idea of printing everything out and having to do a manual search later, or of doing a screen-shot of everything that comes down the pike.
(And no, I'm not exaggerating when I mention Enron. Welcome to corporate America.)
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