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This app ensures your message or image goes poof & turns into cyber dust once read

Posted on August 4, 2014 by

Increasingly, there are now phone apps coming into the market that allow you to send messages or images which self-destruct after a while. Some weeks ago, we had written about Wiper, that uses patented tech to wipe off your messages. Then, last week, we featured the UK-based startup Pushfor that is a platform that allows companies to send professional business content that deletes from the recipient’s device after a specific number of views or date.

to allow companies to send professional business content that deletes from the recipient’s device after a specific number of views or date. – See more at: http://internet.whatsnewonthenet.com/pushfor-launches-worlds-1st-platform-send-self-expiring-business-content-2014-08-01/#sthash.kMFDgFc0.dpuf
to allow companies to send professional business content that deletes from the recipient’s device after a specific number of views or date. – See more at: http://internet.whatsnewonthenet.com/pushfor-launches-worlds-1st-platform-send-self-expiring-business-content-2014-08-01/#sthash.kMFDgFc0.dpuf

Now, there’s an iOS app called Cyber Dust, which ensures you do not leave a trail of everything you have written. Messages disappear within seconds & cannot be traced when sent through this app. Which basically means everything is safe from prying eyes, bethey of your rivals, your boss, your wife or well, your girlfriend.

Developed by Mention Mobile, LLC, Cyber Dust is yet another app in a series of apps that these guys have launched. The logic behind Cyber Dust is – if every spoken word is not recorded, why should your messages be?

Here are some of its features:

– Fully encrypted messages that are deleted forever
– Messages never touch a hard drive
– Allows to share photos, stickers & Emojis
– Allows to send mass photos & texts to multiple friends
– Add multi-line text on top of photos with cool fonts
– Sent & Read Confirmations
– Screenshot detection
– Share in-the-moment conversations with friends
– Never pay for an sms text message again
– Instantly connect with friends and other users

A new version of this free app released last week comes with some bugs fixed from the previous version.

Click here to download Cyber Dust on your iOS device.

 

Image Credit: iTunes/Mention Mobile

 

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Privacy Badger: Browser add-on that stops 3rd party tracking of your Online moves

Posted on May 2, 2014 by

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),a non-profit body defending civil liberty in a digital world, recently launched the Privacy Badger, a browser add-on tool that analyzes Sites to detect & disallow Content that tracks your Online movement in “an objectionable, non-consensual manner.”

When an Online surfer visits Websites, this add-on keeps note of the “third party” domains that embed images, scripts & advertising in the pages he/she visits. If a third party server appears to be tracking you without permission, Privacy Badger kicks in & will automatically disallow Content from that third party tracker. In cases where the third-party domain provides some important aspect of a page’s functionality, such as embedded maps, images, etc, Privacy Badger will allow connections to the third party but will screen out its tracking cookies.

Protect Online PrivacyEssentially, this new add-on blocks spying ads & invisible trackers. This extension works automatically. It sends the ‘Do Not Track’ header with each request, & evaluates the likelihood that the user is still being tracked. If the algorithm deems the likelihood is too high, it, then automatically block the user’s request from being sent to the domain.

Currently in alpha stage, Privacy Badger has 3 states. Red means block the tracker. Yellow means that it does not send cookies or referers to the tracker. Green means unblocked. Users can click on the Privacy Badger icon in the browser’s toolbar if they wish to override the automatic blocking settings.

As of now, the add-on is available for Firefox & Chrome.

 

Image Credit: Electronic Frontier Foundation

 

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