Here's yet another reason why Signal should NOT be held up as the standard for secure and/or private comms.
@voltronic I'm a big fan of Signal so maybe a bit biased here, but I believe this is simply b/c the quote of a previous message is an entirely separate copy & will always adhere to the setting of the new disappearing message timer. They're probably ways around this, but I would imagine it becomes exceedingly complex, requiring some remnant of the disappeared message to enforce the quote disappearing which could introduce bugs, or worse security vulnerabilities, in future updates.
@nova
This doesn't seem to complex to me. I'm pretty sure that on Twitter, when someone quote-tweets and the original is deleted, the quoted message is replaced with a message stating that it was deleted by the author. Now, we know that Twitter doesn't *actually* delete messages from their servers, but if they *did* (like on CoSo) then that would take care of it.
Signal is a centralized messenger, so I don't see why they couldn't use a similar implementation.
@nova
Obviously copy-paste would still retain what was posted, but I'm talking about using the quote function built into the app. If the quote is made to be pointing to the original post rather than scraping its text, then if the original post is deleted from the DB it should be gone everywhere it is referenced, no?