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The Signal site has a reasonable answer for this. From https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320771-Set-and-manage-disappearing-messages https://s
by adrianmonk 7y ago
The Signal site has a reasonable answer for this.
From https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320771-Set-and-manage-disappearing-messages https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320771-Se... :
> This is not for situations where your contact is your adversary — after all, if someone who receives a disappearing message really wants a record of it, they can always use another camera to take a photo of the screen before the message disappears.
In other words, the way they describe it, use cases for disappearing messages would be limited to ones where you trust your conversation partner(s). Basically it is a cooperative data retention feature.