[FYI] Microsoft launches 'leak-proof' e-mail

[Jan Meyer <jan@synflood.in-berlin.de>]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3205080.stm

The latest version of Microsoft's popular Office software will, the company
claims, allow users to send e-mails that will "self-destruct" after a set time.

The development is designed to improve security - and avoid potentially
embarrassing messages coming back to haunt senders.

Microsoft says users will also be able to restrict who is allowed to read an
e-mail - and prevent recipients from forwarding messages to other users or
printing them off.

The new software - known as Information Rights Management - could
potentially be used by governments and companies to prevent leaks of
sensitive information.

[...]

Microsoft says Office 2003, which is to be launched on Tuesday, will allow
users to "time stamp" e-mails, ordering them to be deleted on a set date.

But any organisation planning to install the new software may run into
opposition from regulators.

In the United States, destroying e-mails is a federal offence, regarded in a
similar light to shredding documents.

Earlier this year, brokers Morgan Stanley were fined $1.65m for failing to
keep e-mail records.

The company says the deletions were an oversight, rather than a deliberate
attempt to obstruct financial investigators

[...]



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