Sender Controlled E-mail – Self Destructing or Single Read E-mail

Ever send an e-mail and then have second thoughts? What about wanting to make sure that the e-mail you send doesn’t get shared beyond your original recipient. Using the same technique that spammers do to bypass filters and verify e-mail accounts, BitString uses images for the content of messages. Since the reader has to load the image (which is stored on the BitString server) to view the message, if the sender wants to take it back, all they have to do is ask BitString to delete the image. As long as the image is destroyed before the reciever opens the e-mail, they can be assured that it’s never been read. Also, since BitString can track how many accesses are made for the image and what IP is requesting it, you can lock it to one individual either by specifying that after the first read of the image, it will be deleted. That will prevent forwarding of the message to your recipients friends. That’s pretty cool.

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