"Vanish" privacy on the web

[naronic]

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

"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."

So, government hackers have developed a program that can let you set a time limit to your file accessibility on the internet.

It works like this, a girl posts a naked picture of his-herself on face book or myspace, she can set a time limit to how long it stays there and people can view it.
When the time limit is up, them POOF the file "self-destructs" meaning nobody can view it any longer.

personally I think this is a huge save for any post camera scene whore girls.

[CaptainChip]

See picture, save picture. I doubt that it could affect the actual picture...

And if it did, copy and paste picture into paint, and save.

[HecticCircleCrap]

That's why I've been trying to nuke the posts I had on 2006 and 2007, and even the first few months of 2008. I don't want people to know I asked "what the hell is pot?"

[TheRadicalOne]

At 10/29/09 06:26 PM, Jezuz wrote: I've considered deleting my newgrounds account for this very reason. I simply don't like who I was when I was a child, or especially who I was in the first few months of my adult life. I probably won't like who I am currently down the road, either. Personally, I wish things from online would be considered worthless in real life, especially what you did as a kid.

That would obviously simply aggravate the amount of trolls and dicks there are on the internet.

Ditto.

I was a stupid kid when I started going on Newgrounds, looking back I can only hang my head in shame. I seriously hope nobody would hold anything I say against me, but odds are they would.

[spartan100]

i tryed to terminate my old account cause it always asked stupid shit so i just made a new one with a new email

[lemonsourkid]

If you use it the government knows what you're doing and probably why you did it.

[firemaker60]

This looks like a good and very useful piece of software. I hope that the researchers are able to get a working prototype out soon.

[amaterasu]

Let's write a program called "Appear" that automatically strips vanish encapsulation.

Whoops.

[Leo3oproductions]

At 10/29/09 06:29 PM, HecticCircleCrap wrote: That's why I've been trying to nuke the posts I had on 2006 and 2007, and even the first few months of 2008. I don't want people to know I asked "what the hell is pot?"

Time to go hunting for that then.

[Mulchings]

At 10/29/09 07:18 PM, Leo3oproductions wrote:

At 10/29/09 06:29 PM, HecticCircleCrap wrote: That's why I've been trying to nuke the posts I had on 2006 and 2007, and even the first few months of 2008. I don't want people to know I asked "what the hell is pot?"

Time to go hunting for that then.

Ha, it's at the very top of the oldest page of posts.

[iateamexican]

The government has hackers now?
Surely they arent hacking if they're working for the government, "hacking" generally implies some level of illegality.

[agustana]

At 10/29/09 06:27 PM, CaptainChip wrote: See picture, save picture. I doubt that it could affect the actual picture...

And if it did, copy and paste picture into paint, and save.

Exactly.

How is this going to work if someone sees the picture on the internet and then saves it? It will only be deleted from the internet, not from that persons computer.

So, technically sure, you're getting privacy on the 'web', but your picture could still be saved to someones computer and then re-uploaded.

[GiantDouche]

That's actually not a bad idea.

[DarkRedFlame]

At 10/29/09 09:24 PM, GiantDouche wrote: That's actually not a bad idea.

This is the worst idea ever.

[Dogmeat]

At 10/29/09 08:47 PM, iateamexican wrote: The government has hackers now?
Surely they arent hacking if they're working for the government, "hacking" generally implies some level of illegality.

No, the have a huge anti-hacker team working for the states, they've saved a lot of shit, there's also counter hacker businesses that vigilante hackers for the lulz.

[DaShadowz]

At 10/29/09 06:23 PM, naronic wrote:

:a girl posts a naked picture of his-herself

his-herself? o.O

[Leidolfr]

At 10/29/09 06:23 PM, naronic wrote: personally I think this is a huge save for any post camera scene whore girls.

yup until a glitch or human error timebombs all your files....

[ try just learning how to protect your shit ]