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Technologically Speaking, Maybe It Is Possible Today for the Dog to Eat Homework, KablooeyMail Kids U.S. Senator
4/13/2007
The CEO of a destructible
email service called KablooeyMail chided Senator Patrick J. Leahy to revise
and extend the remarks he made yesterday on the floor of Congress from "you
can't erase e-mails" to "some emails might erase themselves."
"Our clients emails are disappearing all over the place," said CDS
Technologies Inc. CEO John Flanagan, whose company offers the self-
destructible email service free at http://www.kablooeymail.com. "In fact,
you can make emails vanish or go 'kablooey' at a pre-set time." he said.
So, despite what the esteemed Democratic senator from Vermont and chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Committee said yesterday, Flanagan said that
sometimes maybe "the dog can eat your homework."
Sen. Leahy cited the old excuse "the dog ate my homework" as a mockery
of the position the White House has taken in the swirling controversy over
the alleged loss of some White House emails.
If any of the White House aides or Federal prosecutors who were fired
used Kablooeymail, the sender of email messages could have made them self
destruct at a set time and meanwhile have prevented or at least made it
difficult for the recipient to print, store, forward or copy the message.
"We're not advocating the use of our service to circumvent
record-keeping requirements," Flanagan said. "We just wanted to correct the
record as to what the latest in email technology is capable of," he said.
By using KablooeyMail, it is possible to circumvent having the e-mail
passing through so many servers. While not an infallible alternative,
KablooeyMail provides layers of protection and privacy above regular e-mail
that would make it more difficult to preserve, Flanagan said.
"The neighborhood kid whom the senator said could retrieve the lost
email may not have a lot of luck in finding those e-mails, but I'm willing
to bet he could show you 100 different ways of communicating on the
Internet that isn't logged, recorded, or backed up." Just as easily, he can
show you how to use e-mail in such way, said Flanagan. While KablooeyMail
isn't infallible and is definitely not the end all of e-mail security, it's
providing "better than regular" e-mail security, he said.
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