It would enable you to remove remove your private conversation from prying eyes, but would it not also enable anybody in a hate group to remove the evidence of their plotting? As usual technology could be used for good or bad. Rod On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 08:55, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> wrote:

'Instant messaging service Telegram has added a feature that lets a user delete messages in one-to-one and/or group private chats, after the fact, and not only from their own inbox. From a report:

The new 'nuclear option' delete feature allows a user to selectively delete their own messages and/or messages sent by any/all others in the chat. They don't even have to have composed the original message or begun the thread to do so. They can just decide it's time. Let that sink in. All it now takes is a few taps to wipe all trace of a historical communication -- from both your own inbox and the inbox(es) of whoever else you were chatting with (assuming they're running the latest version of Telegram's app).'

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/03/25/1641204

Something that WhatsApp could add as well...

Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/ _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug