I'm sure many Jamaicans who watched the Movie Mission Impossible: Rogue
Nation fully appreciates the idea of a good self-destructing message.
Especially if the mission leads you to doing this!
Well, I've got real News for you, dear reader; you can
actually send self-destructing messages using a Google Chrome extension called Dmail
as explained in the article “Send
self-destructing Gmail messages with Dmail”, published July 28, 2015 by
Matt Elliott, CNET News.
Dmail
is the brainchild of the same company that created the social bookmarking
service Delicious as noted in the article “Now You Can Make That
Embarrassing Email You Sent Self-Destruct”, published July 24, 2015 by
Victor Luckerson, TIME.
Dmail vs Gmail
Undo Send – Remote Self-Encrypting email within Gmail
Their eventual plans for Dmail
extends not just to email but also to any form of messaging, such as word
documents and PDF that can self-destruct
To be fair, Gmail had recently rolled out a feature called
Undo Send that really just adds a thirty (30) second delay as pointed out in
the article “Gmail
messages can now self-destruct”, published 24.07.2015 By Ananya
Bhattacharya, CNN Money.
All so that you can make up your mind to send the email or
not as explained in my MICO
Wars blog article entitled “How to
enable Gmail’s Undo Send and How to Unsend an Email”.
But that doesn’t erase the email after it has been sent like
a Snapchat message as described in my blog article
entitled “@Facebook
gets Mission Impossible serious with Poke as the @Snapchat bringing “Sexting”
back”.
With this latest Google Chrome Extension you can do just
that with a little bit of data encryption thrown in as well.
Dmail
self-destructing Messages - How this message will self-encrypt weeks later
Once you install Dmail
in your Google Chrome browser, it install as additional line in your Compose window.
This creates a toggle switch which allows you to not only enable
or disable the self-destruct mode, which is really just encrypting your email,
but also set how long it'll take to self-destruct:
1.
Never
2.
In 1 hour
3.
In 1 day
4.
In 1 week
Your recipient doesn’t have to have Dmail
installed in order to read your encrypted emails as noted in the article “Gmail
users can now self-destruct sent emails using Dmail Chrome extension”,
published July 28, 2015 By Rahul R, International
Business Times albeit they'll be able to read your encrypted emails
straight within Gmail.
Recipients who don't have Dmail
installed will receive a message telling them that they’ve just received an
encrypted message via Dmail.
They are then presented with the option to click a View Message button that opens your email in a Chrome tab.
But to me the coolest feature is the ability to remotely
self-destruct previous sent emails using Dmail:
1.
Click All Dmails
at the top of your Gmail inbox
2.
View a list or your emails sent with Dmail
3.
Open email you want to remotely self-destruct
4.
Press a Revoke
Email button to remotely self-destruct
Also, this doesn’t really cause your recipients email to
blow up but rather revokes their access to the decrypted version of the email.
After all, email can't really explode, as albeit a nice idea, that'd be
criminal.
Rather, the recipient is actually sent an unencrypted email;
the Revoke Email Button merely
removes their ability to read the email by re-encrypting the message.
Remote Deleting
Gmail Messages – Why a Blackberry, Samsung and Gmail BBM Timed and Retracted
Messages might be possible
Too bad they can STILL read the body of the message, which
then suggest that you have to be a bit more careful in what you write in the
header.
Also the email STILL registers as being sent to the
recipient, meaning your manager will STILL be asking what you sent and why you
sent it as argue in the article “Get
self-destructing Gmail emails with Dmail”, published July 27, 2015 by James
Vincent, The Verge.
This suggests that if Dmail
becomes popular, Google may soon begin to charge an actual service to delete
emails.
This would be similar to the Blackberry Messenger currently
does with BBM (Blackberry Messenger) Timed and Retracted Messages as reported
in my blog
article entitled “@BBM's
Timed and Retracted Messages - How to BBM's Improved HD Pictures, BBM Sticker
and BBM Music Discovery prevent @Snapchat Nude pictures”.
Heck, Google and Blackberry may even from a partnership to
roll out this service, uniting Blackberry with their “frenemy” to make sure
email are nice, secure but still retractable, for a monthly free for
Professional grade accounts!
Quite possible, as they’ve already partnered with Samsung
and Blackberry to integrate BES12 level security into Google Android 5.0 Lollipop
and Samsung KNOX as mentioned in my blog article
entitled “AnyConnect
for Samsung Knox is a Cisco Systems partnership for Secure VPN Communications”.
Still, if you feel like playing the Spy and encrypting
sensitive information over email that you don't want hanging around and you’re
not into Snapchat, then this is the best option.
Oh, one more thing! This message will self-destruct in 10
seconds......Good luck using Dmail!
Here’s the link:
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