How to Send a Self-Destructing Email: A Method of Self-Destructing Email System

Before the project PRISM was revealed to the public by Edward Snowden only a few people realized emails were being watched by the government. For the benefits that Big Data technologies such as massive distributed storage and user behavior analysis and so on bring, emails became one of the most popular Big Data that has been aimed at as a huge source of intelligence by some organizations spying on public accounts every hour every day. Our research work was just opposite to what the NSA has done: To design and implement a system that can store emails securely, and destroy them clearly when they expired. In another word, a self-destructing emails system.