[NetBehaviour] Vanish

[Olga]

I found this interesting, similar motivations than the suicide machine...

VANISH

Computing and communicating through the Web makes it virtually
impossible to leave the past behind. College Facebook posts or
pictures can resurface during a job interview; a lost or stolen laptop
can expose personal photos or messages; or a legal investigation can
subpoena the entire contents of a home or work computer, uncovering
incriminating or just embarrassing details from the past.

Vanish is a research system designed to give users control over the
lifetime of personal data stored on the web or in the cloud.
Specifically, all copies of Vanish encrypted data — even archived or
cached copies — will become permanently unreadable at a specific time,
without any action on the part of the user or any third party or
centralized service.

For example, using the Firefox Vanish plugin, a user can create an
email, a Google Doc document, a Facebook message, or a blog comment —
specifying that the document or message should "vanish" in 8 hours.
Before that 8-hour timeout expires, anyone who has access to the data
can read it; however after that timer expires, nobody can read that
web content — not the user, not Google, not Facebook, not a hacker who
breaks into the cloud service, and not even someone who obtains a
warrant for that data. That data — regardless of where stored or
archived prior to the timeout — simply self-destructs and becomes
permanently unreadable.

http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/

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Olga P Massanet
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