Vanish: Protect Sensitive Data with Self-destructing Messages

Vanish is a new and innovative tool by the researchers at University of Washington that helps you create self-destructing message on the internet. Well, they actually become unreadable after 8 hours. This means that even if it is stored in the Internet Archive or Google Cache or anywhere from where it can’t be deleted, it doesn’t matter. Because it is unreadable now.

self-destructing message

Vanish is available as a software plus Firefox plugin system and as a web based app. It works with almost all the messaging systems like email, chats, social networks like Facebook etc. The messages are encrypted with a key which is lost after 8 hours and hence the message can’t be decrypted.

Fro more info watch demo video below:

Get the Vanish System here and click here to access the web based version. (via ReadWriteWeb) (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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