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E-mail E-liminator

New software makes sensitive messages self-destruct to prevent disclosure

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It's a dangerous scenario. Employee blabs sensitive information over e-mail, and before long, it has circled the world thrice over. The folks at San Francisco's Disappearing Inc. (www.disappearing.com) think they have a solution. Their e-mail service, scheduled for release in March, automatically destroys messages after a set time, be it one or 90 days.

Disappearing messages are regulated by encryption keys. Every time the message is read, it must first access an encrypted key--a bit of software--on a Disappearing server. When a message expires, the key and the message are destroyed. Poof!



This article was originally published in the February 28, 2000 print edition of Business Week's Frontier. To subscribe, please see our subscription policy. http://businessweek.com/smallbiz/contact.htm



By Dennis Berman in New York




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