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"Features" like these are actually worse than useless because they give users a false sense of security.
by cooper12 8y ago
"Features" like these are actually worse than useless because they give users a false sense of security.
- y_molodtsov 8y agoI don't understand the hate. It's still a good way to send a password or some financial information, just because you know that it's going to be deleted soon and if in the future your contact's account is hacked it will be long gone. Basically, it's a secret chat for email.
- mimsee 8y ago>This message will get deleted in 2 years. >Password is piedpiper123 "Oh, better I copy the password to my computer if I ever need it."
- y_molodtsov 8y agoThis is just a tool, some people may find it useful, others probably won't even use it.
- DocTomoe 8y agoWell, i wonder how they will make other mail providers (or clients, for that matter) to honour this kind of mail headers.
- bonesss 8y agoMy take on the criticism here is that people are ignoring that Google has a lot of customers on GMail and a lot of corporations on GSuite. Intra-office email management is another ballgame and these kinds of features are pretty common in that space (Novell had them in the 90s even). For users outside of Googles platform the obvious solution is either not to send them or to send a managed link to the message contents via normal email. It can't be perfect thanks to the analogue hole, but it only has to be a bit better than nothing to provide utility.
- y_molodtsov 8y agoJust like services like Virtru: they would just get a link for that content.