A Texting Truth Often Forgotten in Politics: Your Phone Remembers Everything

Re:A Texting Truth Often Forgotten in Politics: Your Phone R... by JoshTriplett on Monday August 15, 2016 @06:53AM (#12289597)

That assumes you can trust 1) the (proprietary) application on the recipient's end to delete the message, 2) the recipient to not save the message some other way, and 3) the opaqueness of the protocol preventing anyone from writing a replacement client that doesn't delete messages.

There's no way to guarantee deletion; if the recipient can read it, the recipient can save it.

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Re:A Texting Truth Often Forgotten in Politics: Your Phone R... by taneq on Monday August 15, 2016 @07:26AM (#12289712)

In the end it will always come down to the 'analog hole' - no matter how airtight the digital implementation, you'll never stop the user at the other end from taking a photo of the screen.

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Re:A Texting Truth Often Forgotten in Politics: Your Phone R... by edisoncarter on Monday August 15, 2016 @08:56AM (#12290082)

Not an analog photo, no. However, an airtight digital implementation would absolutely do stop anyone from recording anything they're not allowed to record -- and it wouldn't be really airtight if ownership of non-aligned equipment was tolerated :P

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