Enforce Self-Destructing Links

Problem:

The destroying of a document that was shared with a view-once-and-destroy is not enforced by the server.

Consequences:

A malicious user can open such a link, but decide to not destroy the document. However, it is hard to come up with a scenario in which a malicious user could not achieve the same by simply taking a screenshot of the document.

Suggestions:

Enforce the destruction on the server side.

Drawbacks:

Although the server sent the content, there is no guarantee that the user actually received it (e.g., due to connectivity problems or an active network attack). Hence a document could get destroyed before being accessed the first time.[1]


  1. Currently, a destroyed document is only achieved, and could therefore be restored by instance admins. ↩︎