Metadata anonymization through time delayed email messaging.

[Jeff Scofield]

We know that with or without data content analysis of actual email
messages, lots of information can be inferred through various forms of
metadata collection.  Given this reality the question becomes, what can be
done?

One strategy might be to consider the adoption of a time delayed email
system.  The reason why the use of such a mechanism to allow someone the
ability to write an email, and then have it sent off at a specified (or
randomly generated unspecified) date is useful for multiple reasons.

If a program could be coded in a way which could delay the actual
transmission of data in such a manner that the original time of creation
was adequately masked, it could hamper nefarious metadata collection of
time-stamping and possibly geo-locating of user information.

For example:

A person walks into a computer café at 10am and sets an email to send at
around 4am the following morning (via cloud or machine).  The data gets
sent at 4am when the building is empty.  No CCTV photos/cameras are able to
document who sent the message because the computer café is unoccupied at
4am.  The software is designed in such a fashion that it is nearly
impossible to unmask the original time when the message was instructed to
send, thus hiding the metadata associated with time-stamping, and thus
hiding the true identity of the computer user at the café at 10am the
previous day.

Any and all feed back regarding this idea is welcome.
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