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Vanishing messages

Signal, Telegram, and iMessage are all marketed as end-to-end encrypted. Signal even had a bug where deleted messages were recoverable via iOS notification previews. The only truly private message is one that never gets saved at all.

Footnotes
  1. Filter effect inspired by Mike Bespalov.

  2. A real version could run over WebRTC data channels where messages are relayed peer-to-peer.

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