Have you ever wanted to send confidential information within your work environment, to family or friends, but were afraid to do so over the internet, because some malicious hacker could be spying on you?
Privnote is a free web based service that allows you to send top secret notes over the internet. It's easy and requires no password or user registration at all. Just write your note, and you'll get a link. Then you copy and paste that link into an email that you send to the person who you want to read the note.
When that person clicks the link for the first time, they will see the note in their browser and the note will automatically self-destruct; which means no one (even that very same person) can read the note again. The link won't work anymore.
(thanks Cora)
3 comment(s):
If I was really concerned about sending confidential information over the internet, I'd get the receiver set up with PGP or GPG. Also, there’s the possibility that someone could intercept the unencrypted email and read the message before the intended recipient does. That said, this is better than nothing.
The receiver could copy/paste or take a screen capture of the message... No?
Chad: very often one is in need of sending information in a secure way and does not have the chance to have the receiver set PGP in advance.
Laly: Yes, but that screen capture cannot be related to the link or email as it will not have the url generated by privnote. Try it and you'll see.
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