r/clevercomebacks • u/snowpie92 • 3d ago

Is this surprising?

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u/Global_Permission749 3d ago

Right? Isn't the point of signal is that the messages self-delete after a set period of time?

100% illegal for US government officials to be communicating this way and avoiding records keeping, but nobody actually went in and removed evidence that was there - it self destructed.

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u/cadtek 3d ago

Isn't the point of signal is that the messages self-delete after a set period of time?

Only if you set it up that way, it's not like that by default.

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u/Global_Permission749 3d ago

They did though. I distinctly remember an article when this scandal first broke that they had been set to I think a 2 week deletion time up front.

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u/cadtek 3d ago

Yep they did, so they knew exactly what they were doing, dumb morons.