This question is about a hypothetical in-memory web application that is used for

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This question is about a hypothetical in-memory web application that is used for exchanging encrypted messages that passively self-destruct in X amount of minutes.

Here the messages would be stored at the web app, and the intended recipient would receive a link through which they could access the message before it is erased from the server RAM.

The thought is that this web application would run from some read-only media (e.g. CD-ROM) and for that reason could not be altered.

We have in-memory databases but (AFAIK) no in-memory web applications. Would something like this be technologically (or otherwise) feasible?

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Technically feasible? Certainly. It doesn't sound different from any other live CD, just with a server-oriented environment rather than the more traditional desktop-oriented one.

What advantages do you picture this having, though?

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