Delete attachments automatically
The Silent Text app for Android and OS (silentcircle.com) lets you send attachments of up to 100MB with your emails, which expire when you say so. It has an automatic self-destruct option to erase attachments after a set period of time, which prevents confidential documents from being kept and distributed afterwards. However, it costs $9.95 (about £619) a month.

Create notes that disappear after reading
If an email is intended for one person’s eyes only, then consider using Privnote (https://privnote.com) or NoteDIP (notedip.com) to send your private missives. Privnote is an easy-to-use web site that has a beg yellow ‘sticky note’ for your text. Once you have finished writing, you simply tap the ‘Create note’ button to generate a URL, which can then be emailed or sent via a message, The lir can only be used once - subsequent clicks tell you that the message has been destroyed. You can also find out when the message has been read by inputting your email address and a reference number. NoteDIP offers a similar service and also allows you to password-protect your private messages.
Stop emails being saved and shared
The Chrome extension mxHero Email Toolbox (toolbox.mxhero.com) adds a Self-destruct feature to Gmail. When you compose an email and select this option, the message is turned into an image to prevent anyone from copying and pasting it. The recipient is then given just five minutes to read the message after they've opened it. before it self-destructs. The add-on also bans people from forwarding the message, so it’s ideal for private communication,
Make passwords vanish after sharing
There are times when you need to tell someone a password for a service so they can access your account. To prevent the password from remaining on their computer or phone, use One Time Secret (onetimesecret.com). Type in the password and generate a secret link which the recipient will only be able to use once. The site also gives privacy- conscious users the option of thinking up a difficult word or phrase which would be needed to unlock the original message.
Make all Facebook content self-destruct
The Facebook Poke iPhone app (bit.ly/facebookiphone330) lets you limit the
time that messages, videos and photos stay on the social- networking site. It works with newly
shot images and videos, which you can set to disappear between one and 10 seconds later, selecting as many recipients as you like.
Make your Tweets #selfdestruct
The Twitter app Spirit (twitterspirit.com) lets you control the length of time a tweet will appear. It works using a series of timescale hashtags. For example, writing a tweet and finishing it with #25m’ means it will remain on Twitter for 25 minutes. Likewise, #10th and #3d would limit the tweet to 10 hours and three days. respectively. This s better than putting Out a contentious tweet arid forgetting to remove it. or having to use a service such as Retwact (go.rtrt.co) to tell retweeters you have made an amendment.
Done! Now, when you Tweet with a hashtag like #15m, #5h or #7d, your message will disappear after that time.

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