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authorNicholas Johnson <nick@nicholasjohnson.ch>2023-04-09 00:00:00 +0000
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One approach to mitigating this is disappearing messages, a feature which automatically deletes old messages on the user's device. Based on the apps I've used, there seem to be two main ways of implementing disappearing messages. One is offline, where each participant decides for themself how long messages remain on the device. The other way is online, where all participants use the same message disappearing duration set either by one user in the case of a two-party chat or the group administrator in a group chat.
-The benefit of the online implementation is that all parties can be confident that no others hold records of messages older than a certain date, given that they're not purposely circumventing this security mechanism through screenshotting or something like that. Online disappearing messages can be made adjustable, so the sender and recipient can decide an appropriate time window to retain messages according to their threat model. This mitigates private information disclosure against thieves, [thugs](/glossary/), stalkers, and snooping spouses who gain physical access to the device.
+The benefit of the online implementation is that all parties can be confident that no others hold records of messages older than a certain date, given that they're not purposely circumventing this security mechanism through screenshotting or something like that. Online disappearing messages can be made adjustable, so the sender and recipient can decide an appropriate time window to retain messages according to their threat model. This mitigates private information disclosure against thieves, [thugs](/glossary/#thug), stalkers, and snooping spouses who gain physical access to the device.
Another way to mitigate private information disclosure is requiring the user to set a password for the messaging app. People will still choose weak passwords, but for most common threat models, attackers will simply give up after seeing a password prompt anyways.