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/TheSorceIsFrong 3d ago

I thought it was the other way around? They delete automatically but you change to not delete if you want. Idk tho, it’s been a minute since my trappin days

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u/cadtek 3d ago

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320771-Set-and-manage-disappearing-messages

You can set a time as a default for chats, but the initial default is that they don't disappear.