Encrypted Messaging Apps Wire And Signal Turn To Ephemeral Messages

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Wire added ephemeral messaging to its secure communications app with a new feature called Timed Messages. This, combined with similar efforts from Signal, shows the need for a hybrid approach to digital privacy.

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[devilsclaw]

what's preventing someone taking a screen shot or a analog picture or the message. what can be seen cannot be unseen.

 

[grimfox]

They address that right in the article. There is nothing. It's not meant to prevent the recording or saving of the message it's meant to remove the message from the app after a time period that's it. It's not useful to everyone but the author did list some use cases right in the article.