"This Photo Will Self-Destruct In..." X-Pire Puts an End Date on Images

At long last, there is a program out there for the many that worry about their image on the Web. Researchers in Germany have developed X-Pire, a program that will delete at a future time any pictures you are wary about.

At long last, there is a program out there for the many that worry about their image on the Web. Researchers in Germany have developed X-Pire, a program that will kill off your images at a fixed time so that they don’t stay online forever.

X-Pire will put an expiration date on any picture posted online, thereby removing anything that might be embarrassing or scandalous. Once a picture passes the set date, it cannot be viewed or copied.

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