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0 pointsdinedal15y ago0 comments

Personally, I'd prefer an option to have it delete immediately after it's been processed, even if that's not the default.

Lots of idea's get thrown up on whiteboards where I work, but the boss man is a little paranoid. In order to become a regular user I would need to know that nothing I email over is being kept.

I understand the insecurities of email in general, but there's a difference between available for the duration of the email transmission and available for days after the email has been sent.

Thanks for being responsive.

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tjr15y ago

I once worked in the information security group at a large insurance company, and they prohibited their employees from using, e.g., AltaVista Babelfish, lest they mistakenly release confidential information via the translation tool. Instead, they wanted employees to use a local desktop-based translation tool.

For all of the security measures that can be taken with sending data to web applications, "never sending it at all" is very secure indeed, and in some arenas, the inconvenience may be worth it.

kyleburton15y ago

Just curious - do you know if they'd buy a desktop version of something like this? If they did previously? Thanks for sharing about these kinds of users.

tjr15y ago

I no longer work with them, so I can only surmise. I never saw anyone using a tool like this, but it's a big company with many offices, and individual groups may well have bought their own local tools that weren't provided at the enterprise level. Would they buy a desktop version? If employees found it useful, I don't see why not.

They almost certainly would not use the web version, unless they could run it 100% internally on their intranet.

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0 pointsdinedal15y ago0 comments

Personally, I'd prefer an option to have it delete immediately after it's been processed, even if that's not the default.

Lots of idea's get thrown up on whiteboards where I work, but the boss man is a little paranoid. In order to become a regular user I would need to know that nothing I email over is being kept.

I understand the insecurities of email in general, but there's a difference between available for the duration of the email transmission and available for days after the email has been sent.

Thanks for being responsive.

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tjr15y ago

For all of the security measures that can be taken with sending data to web applications, "never sending it at all" is very secure indeed, and in some arenas, the inconvenience may be worth it.

kyleburton15y ago

Just curious - do you know if they'd buy a desktop version of something like this? If they did previously? Thanks for sharing about these kinds of users.

tjr15y ago

They almost certainly would not use the web version, unless they could run it 100% internally on their intranet.

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