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   by fec 14y ago

   Sometimes what you may attribute to malice, is actually just carelessness or stupidity.
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   by fec 14y ago

   Embedding pictures and HTML works great. Links, yes that's a problem.
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   by fec 14y ago

   The idea is that you don't use this for all of your emails, just the ones that you don't want forwarded.
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   by fec 14y ago

   Great, this solution obviously addressing a burning need. May I ask, were previous solutions free and work on nearly all email clients? I don't really see any major race happening. The best information grabbing tool already works great - p
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   by fec 14y ago

   Thanks, I'll try to address as many of these as I can. I've broken a few of these into groups below, as I think they have similar solutions. ==== I) Where's the utility of this tool? > Right-click -> Save Image as -> forward to
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   by fec 14y ago

   Temporary solution: If you have multiple devices, you can create an account on NOFWD, and log into nofwd.com from each device. Now, NOFWD will see all of your devices as a single entity, and not self-destruct your messages that you view. Th
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   by fec 14y ago

   My weekend project: http://nofwd.com I created this project because I was tired of seeing my friends violate the confidentiality of our private conversations, by constantly forwarding our emails to third parties. As you at HN will underst
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   Show HN: Email that self-destructs when forwarded(nofwd.com)

   17 points by fec 14y ago|35 comments
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   by fec 17y ago

   This certainly could be done. Here are some MATLAB routines that implement it: http://www.acm.caltech.edu/l1magic/ Seven examples using compressive sensing: http://www.acm.caltech.edu/l1magic/downloads/l1magic.pdf
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    by fec 17y ago

    Computer science is more similar to math than the physical sciences, if one of these two had to be chosen from.
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    by fec 17y ago

    In the cases where there are no physical-world measurements, as with inputs and outputs to many machine learning problems, it is math. "Experiments" using randomized algorithms and measuring the results, themselves, certainly don't qualify