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Office 2003 Gives Documents and E-mails Expiry Dates
posted by scubacuda on Wednesday October 29, @02:17AM
from the Oliver-North-would-have-loved-this dept.
privacy New Scientist and Silicon.com: Microsoft's Office 2003 now has the ability to give documents and emails an expiry date. "It should work," says Simson Garfinkel, a computer forensics expert at MIT. "But it could be defeated by a hostile user. There's no way you could prevent someone from taking a digital picture of the screen."

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