Koolest Mobile App ever: Self-Destructing Messages Video and Photos on your Phones!
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Koolest Mobile App ever: Self-Destructing Messages Video and Photos on your Phones!
A team of data security experts has unveiled a new mobile app called Wickr. The app offers what its developers describe as “military-grade” encryption for data, but it also does something else: It allows users to make text messages, photos, and videos self-destruct. Messages sent through Wickr totally and irretrievably disappear from their recipients’ phones after a set period of time. Senders can customize the self-destruct deadline to be anything from six days down to a second.
There’s clear logic to this. After all, when an embarrassing text or photo goes public, it isn’t usually because someone has intercepted it. More often it’s because the recipient shared it or forwarded it to a few friends, each of whom forwarded it to a few of their friends, and so on to the point of infamy. An app such as Wickr is an attempt to nip the process in the bud before something awkward can blossom into virality.
“The Internet is forever!” the app’s motto reads. “Your personal data doesn’t have to be.” Its logo is a burning wick.
It’s a clever technology, as well as a manifestation of an interesting argument that some legal and internet scholars have begun to make: All information should have an expiration date. Today the default setting for data is immortality. It sits on a server somewhere unless someone actively deletes it and any copies that may have been made. There are images and texts we individually or collectively might want to preserve for posterity. These include cherished mementos for sure, but perhaps also a record of a job applicant’s long and violent criminal record.
There’s lots of other stuff, though—mortifying pictures and videos, drunken texts, slanderous attacks launched by (or at) high-school nemeses—that we’d like to have disappear as soon as possible. In the non-digital world, information eventually complies with those wishes: Newspapers are published, then consigned to dusty archives; books go out of print; and negatives for incriminating photos get lost. People forget. The problem is that the Internet makes it far easier for someone years later to stumble over an incriminating bit of information from a person’s past and then restart a humiliating process.
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Koolest Mobile App ever: Self-Destructing Messages Video and Photos on your Phones!
A team of data security experts has unveiled a new mobile app called Wickr. The app offers what its developers describe as “military-grade” encryption for data, but it also does something else: It allows users to make text messages, photos, and videos self-destruct. Messages sent through Wickr totally and irretrievably disappear from their recipients’ phones after a set period of time. Senders can customize the self-destruct deadline to be anything from six days down to a second.
There’s clear logic to this. After all, when an embarrassing text or photo goes public, it isn’t usually because someone has intercepted it. More often it’s because the recipient shared it or forwarded it to a few friends, each of whom forwarded it to a few of their friends, and so on to the point of infamy. An app such as Wickr is an attempt to nip the process in the bud before something awkward can blossom into virality.
“The Internet is forever!” the app’s motto reads. “Your personal data doesn’t have to be.” Its logo is a burning wick.
It’s a clever technology, as well as a manifestation of an interesting argument that some legal and internet scholars have begun to make: All information should have an expiration date. Today the default setting for data is immortality. It sits on a server somewhere unless someone actively deletes it and any copies that may have been made. There are images and texts we individually or collectively might want to preserve for posterity. These include cherished mementos for sure, but perhaps also a record of a job applicant’s long and violent criminal record.
There’s lots of other stuff, though—mortifying pictures and videos, drunken texts, slanderous attacks launched by (or at) high-school nemeses—that we’d like to have disappear as soon as possible. In the non-digital world, information eventually complies with those wishes: Newspapers are published, then consigned to dusty archives; books go out of print; and negatives for incriminating photos get lost. People forget. The problem is that the Internet makes it far easier for someone years later to stumble over an incriminating bit of information from a person’s past and then restart a humiliating process.
Chargezone Location mobile App Coming Soon! (For your free re-charging points)
www.chargezone.co.uk
www.youtube.com/chargezone
www.vimeo.com/chargezone
www.twitter.com/chargezone
http://chargezone.tumblr.com
The Public Smartphone Charging Media with Brand Focused Advertising
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