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While potentially worrisome I always figured the biggest benefit of using Signal was the self destructing messages. If you are (as the article states) using Sig
by jsiepkes 6y ago
While potentially worrisome I always figured the biggest benefit of using Signal was the self destructing messages. If you are (as the article states) using Signal as a protester to "communicate securely with their teams marshaling protestors, discussing tactics..." I would definitely enable self destructing messages in short time frame.
Also in order to get to the Signal data storage you would first have to defeat the encryption of the device itself (ie. the encryption used by Android / IOS). I would assume that anyone who uses signal and really has something to hide has disabled fingerprint or face id and uses either a passphrase or pincode. It's going to be hard to ever access the signal storage that way.
- pixxel 6y agoI have self destructing messages turned on. But only because I’ve never understood the need to cling on to message histories year-after-year, from old device to new device, to the next. Maybe my circle of friends, and myself, just aren’t that interesting enough to archive. I delete email too, except anything financial.