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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by ikeboy on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:26PM (#11726113)
I followed the arstechnica liveblog. http://live.arstechnica.com/google-io-2016-keynote/#post-885...

>Incognito also offers message expiration. When you close incognito mode, your message is gone forever.

I assumed that was accurate. Did they misrepresent it somehow?

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by eightysix_four on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:45PM (#11726238)
Possibly - the two sites I've seen with "hands-ons" do not mention this anywhere.
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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by ikeboy on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:59PM (#11726332)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-takes-on-apple-facebook-w... (https://archive.is/ELitC for paywall)

>All chats will be encrypted, but a special incognito mode will have an end-to-end encryption, and expiring chats that are permanently deleted once you leave them.

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