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Slack probably doesn't care about this, but I do find it slightly disingenuous that Signal offers a "delete message" feature, given its focus on security and no
by don-code 4y ago
Slack probably doesn't care about this, but I do find it slightly disingenuous that Signal offers a "delete message" feature, given its focus on security and not misleading the user that they're doing something that protects them. What's saying that I couldn't similarly patch Signal, and read all of my friend's deleted messages?
- elcomet 4y agoI think it's pretty obvious to anyone that your correspondant can read a message before you delete it. And no one assumes that deleting it from signal deletes it from people's brain.
- cole-k 4y agoIsn't the whole point of disappearing/delete-able messages that you leave the meaning in your recipient's brain but not on your phones? So if a third party later tries to read your chat logs they won't see anything (sensitive). I think it's assumed that your recipient is not malicious. I swear at some point there was a warning saying that if you enable disappearing messages it wouldn't prevent your recipient (or you) from simply taking a screenshot of the messages.
- gruez 4y agoIt's not in the app, but on the support page they do indicate that deleting messages is "best effort" (ie. not guaranteed). https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320491-Delete-messages-alerts-or-chats https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320491-De...
- cwillu 4y agoAnd “best effort” may mean “no effort” for a paid subscription if the payee selects the option to retain edit revisions and deleted messages.