{"id":3283,"date":"2016-10-16T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2021-08-02T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T12:20:00","slug":"self-destructing-messages-dont-protect-recipient-never-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/self-destructing-messages-dont-protect-recipient-never-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-destructing messages don&#8217;t protect against the recipient &#8211; that was never the point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This week, Signal finally introduced self-destructing messages. Regrettably, many seem to miss the point of what they\u2019re for. The point of a self-destructing message is not to protect against the recipient, it\u2019s to protect the message from being read by somebody else than the recipient much later if the device is lost, seized, or otherwise compromised.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Signal has long been the go-to secure messaging for privacy activists \u2013 for long enough that I used to recommend it as TextSecure and RedPhone, before it merged to one app and changed names to Signal. The one lacking feature has been self-destructing messages, which is why I used Telegram in the most sensitive of environments, despite Telegram\u2019s encryption being significantly weaker and not entirely best practice.<\/p>\n<p>But as of last week, Signal finally added self-destructing messages. Unfortunately, most people seem to be <em>missing the point<\/em> as to their immense value, and even the Signal pages <a href=\"https:\/\/signal.org\/blog\/disappearing-messages\/\">talk of \u201cdata hygiene\u201d<\/a> and a way to \u201ckeep message history tidy\u201d, as if the self-destruct was mostly about not cluttering your phone memory with old messages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The point of self-destructing messages is to prevent <em>somebody else<\/em> than the recipient from reading them, in case the device is compromised by an adversary <em>later or much later.<\/em> The intended recipient is not the adversary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The point was never a SnapChat-like \u201cyou can see this once and never again\u201d thing. After all, you\u2019re sending a message to somebody and <em>intending<\/em> them to read it. Do you want to prevent them from re-experiencing reading a message? That\u2019s\u2026 esoteric, but doesn\u2019t really have a lot of security value: the message is in the recipient\u2019s memory, and you don\u2019t have access to changing their memory.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, self-destructing messages are not intended to protect against the recipient reading it more than once. Such a notion has little value. You <em>want<\/em> the recipient to read it, after all; that\u2019s the whole point of sending the self-destructing message to the recipient in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Take the following scenario, for example: Alice sends something personally sensitive but completely legal to Bob\u2019s phone. Bob comes under suspicion of a crime, and police seize his phone. The messages in Bob\u2019s phone become part of the court case and therefore the public record, now readable by anyone. Bob is later completely acquitted of the crime, having been the wrong person charged. Despite everybody in law enforcement doing what they were supposed to, Alice\u2019s sensitive messages have now become public knowledge. (And even if the messages are excluded from the public court case, law enforcement officers will still have read them to determine this fact.)<\/p>\n<p><em>This<\/em> is the scenario that self-destructing messages prevent. This is why you should be using them.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, in less\u2026 hospitable regimes, it may be illegal just to discuss the world we live in. Self-destruct comes in handy there, too. Legal isn\u2019t always ethical, and ethical isn\u2019t always legal.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Signal finally introduced self-destructing messages. Regrettably, many seem to miss the point of what they\u2019re for. The point of a self-destructing message is not to protect against the recipient, it\u2019s to protect the message from being read by somebody else than the recipient much later if the device is lost, seized, or otherwise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/self-destructing-messages-dont-protect-recipient-never-point\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Self-destructing messages don&#8217;t protect against the recipient &#8211; that was never the point&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Self-destructing messages protect against device compromise, not rereads<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Signal has added self-destructing messages, and most (including Signal&#039;s own pages) missed the point completely. 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