Posted in Technicalon Sep 27, 2006
Today on Slashdot there was a story about a messaging service called VaporStream that allows for completely recordless digital communication. They say “messages cannot be forwarded, edited, printed or saved.” See, I don’t buy into stories like that. Obviously, the message must be displayed at some point. What is keeping me from taking a digital camera and taking a picture of the screen. Then I have a record of what was sent. Maybe legally it is recordless, but I think it is important to remember there is always ways to take a camera or a tape recorder to things that weren’t meant to be recorded.
One Comment
pierre
October 5th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
True, but the point here is that email and IM being recorded by a corporate IT department are typically admissible in court as evidence. This mechanism doesn’t leave (supposedly) any record in any system, so even if you take a picture of it, it is unlikely to be admissible.