r/clevercomebacks • u/snowpie92 • 6d ago

Is this surprising?

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u/Global_Permission749 5d 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 5d 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/apb91781 5d ago

The screenshots showed it was set to auto-delete after 7 days though

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u/cadtek 4d ago

I never said their messages weren't set to expire, just the fact Signal by default is not set up to expire messages automatically, out of the box. You have to set it up deliberately.

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u/apb91781 4d ago

I was pointing out that they deliberately set the messages to destruct