Share Highly Secure Information That Self Destructs Via E-mail
These days, it seems like every scrap of information -- corporate and personal -- is online. It's little surprise, then, that so many people are constantly on the lookout for ways to secure their e-mail, or even configure it to self-destruct after some period of time.
Here's the newest weapon in the war on data security: A site called QuickForget.com. QuickForget is designed to do one thing and one thing only: share short messages that are utterly, thoroughly deleted immediately after you're done with them.
Imagine, for example, you need to share a username or password with someone to help troubleshoot a problem. If you send the password via e-mail, it's archived on a mail server forever. Send it via QuickForget, on the other hand, and you can tell it to "forget" your data after 2 views or 60 minutes, whichever comes first. The deletion criteria is completely configurable when you create the message.
After you enter the message you want to send, the site creates a URL that you can send in e-mail. The e-mail might live forever, but the link will be dead after whatever time and viewing criteria you specify.
It's a great way to send messages that need to be secure but have a very limited shelf life.
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