Priya's Blog

Here is good news for all celebrities and for all online social butterflies guess what? New software has been created by a group of computer scientist at the University of Washington have a developed a software to prevent web pages from hackers and it is named as “Vanish”. This software has developed a way to make electronic messages self destruct after a particular period of time. So the new software will protect the personal information on social networking sites from hackers. What the researchers also tells us is this software encrypts messages, needs an hour as both personal and business information which is stored in on centralized machines or servers. The question which arises in our mind is "will this software works?” In fact 'Vanish' relies on shattering an encryption key that is not held by either party but widely scattered in a web sharing system. When its asked a technical hacker, he added that “Certain mail servers have the facility of notifying the sender once the receiver has opened their mail. There are also other software’s available online, which destroys an e-mail after it is read. So this is not a new phenomenon. 'Vanish' is just an additional feature that can be added to the existing software. It will completely destroy the electronic messages exchanged on the web. But unfortunately these technologies are not widely used.”