It has something to do with privacy...I think...
2006-12-04 01:32:11 · 2 answers · asked by AnimeGameMaster 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It seems to mean protecting emails electronically to ensure their confidentiality:
"Jun. 15--Imagine sending a letter that was opened and photocopied repeatedly while en route to the recipient.
That wouldn't happen with regular mail, but copies of e-mail are often stored on computer servers while in transit. E-mail also can linger on your computer's hard drive long after you've deleted the message from the screen.
Companies are getting around this with an idea straight out of "Mission: Impossible": self-destructing messages.
Nothing explodes inside your computer. Instead, e-mail is virtually shredded so that it can't be recovered. "
2006-12-04 02:17:34 · answer #1 · answered by Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It strips the header and tag information from traffic stored on your machine or sent from your machine. Then it randomly overwrights unused section of the disc so that people can not see what data you had stored on it previously.
2006-12-04 10:16:45 · answer #2 · answered by Big Blair 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋