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🔥 Burn After Reading — Because Sometimes, Files Shouldn’t Live Forever

So… I built an app that deletes your files.
On purpose. 😅

It’s called BAR (Burn After Reading) — a fun little project I made just to see if I could make something that literally self-destructs.
Turns out, I could.

🧩 What It Does

BAR is like a digital secret agent.
You drop a file into its container, set your rules (like how many times it can open, or when it should go poof 💨), and that’s it.

BAR guards it, follows your orders, and when the time’s up — boom. Gone.
No cloud. No recovery. No evidence.

Just your file, your rules, your drama.

😎 Why I Made It

Honestly? For fun.
One random night I thought, “What if I could make a file that destroys itself like in spy movies?”
Next thing I knew, I had a working version — and it was both cool and terrifying to watch.

💻 What’s Inside

BAR runs completely offline and handles everything locally —

Self-destruct timers

Limited opens

Wrong password traps

And yeah, the entire code (including all the secret logic) is open-source on GitHub —
because privacy shouldn’t be mysterious, right? 😏

💬 Final Thoughts

BAR isn’t some big commercial thing — it’s just me having fun mixing privacy, logic, and chaos together.
If you love weird experiments or just want to make your files feel like secret missions — check it out.
Clone it, break it, test it, or make it better — I dare you 😏
👉 https://github.com/Mrtracker-new/BAR

And hey… if you like the idea, drop a ⭐ on the repo — it burns slower that way 😉

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