EPISODE · Aug 6, 2009 · 1 MIN

Vanishing Act

from US News | Science Discoveries · host National Science Foundation

A team of computer scientists at the University of Washington developed a prototype system called Vanish that can place a time limit on information uploaded to the internet that causes all the information to become useless when the time is up.

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