Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

“Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink”

&gt; Think twice before sending a message, even over Signal. You will likely not be able to predict when you will be sued, investigated, or otherwise thrown into the lime-light.<p>Or, radical new idea here, how about conduct yourself in a reasonable way where if everyone in the world read your text messages you wouldn&#x27;t be fired or go to jail?

The problem with Signal is that other party can turn auto delete off for both. Clearly bad design. It should be that the smallest timer wins.

The way his phone was compromised was likely with targeted malware like Pegasus v2. Even if you&#x27;re deleting messages it wouldn&#x27;t matter, because whatever you&#x27;re seeing on the screen &#x2F; typing is all being logged and transmitted somewhere else.

I postulate that given HNs political guidelines, this whole submission has a high chance of being flagged for some reason.<p>Most people have no need to auto-delete something that was recorded by a 3rd party already.

Oh yes. I see it clearly now. The problem this whole time was actually that he didn&#x27;t sufficiently hide the evidence of malicious intent.<p>What a weird, bland, utterly oblivious take.