[guardian-dev] Silent Text for Android - interesting feature

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Fri Jul 26 11:49:15 EDT 2013



On 07/26/2013 11:46 AM, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> On 07/26/2013 11:38 AM, Matej Kovacic wrote:
>> this is proprietary software (I think it is not opensourced yet), but
>> has one interesting feature - burning notices (deleting messages after
>> the other party received it).
> 
> I do understand why a "this message will self destruct" feature is
> desirable, but I just can't bring myself to try and implement one.
> 
> In short, do you want a remote mobile phone to be able to send a message
> to your mobile phone that it should delete an entry in your secure and
> encrypted local database?
> 
> I suppose if you have a verified OTR connection, it does mean you trust
> the person you are communicating with, but otherwise, this sounds like
> DRM and/or a backdoor to me.

It as long as the delete function its strictly limited to the single message,
I think that the functionality could outweigh the little bit of loss of control.

.hc

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