I think you guys are missing the use case where both parties are looking to not leave a paper trail. If I email IM or text you nothing but links to this service our communications, while happening over convenient networks, have no (theoretical) paper trail.
Um... if you don't want anyone to know, why would you EVER send your data to a third party?
All of these "disappearing ink" apps are patently ridiculous, they all have demonstrated security flaws, and they completely ignore the analog gap problem.
What are people thinking when they decide to use this crap?
... "Oh cool, look at me, I am a spy... let me send you something sekret, tee-hee I am sure this other dude running this server is totally cool too so you can send me your sekrets back... tee-hee-hee... nobody will ever know"
So many god damned stupid fucking kids walking all over my fucking lawn these days!
Your attitude seems unnecessarily negative. Let me give you a theoretical example:
I live with my girlfriend. My girlfriend's birthday is next week and I want to plan a surprise party. I send a message out on this thing instead of Facebook or email (where she might see it).
When the vast majority of people talk about not leaving a paper trail, they (rightfully) aren't concerned with third parties -- they're concerned about second parties. Snapchat didn't take off because people were trying to hide from governments, it took off because they were trying to hide from friends and parents.
Case 1: You delete my message once I read it
Case 2: You simply report it as deleted once I read it(but keep it stored)
Is there any way for us to distinguish the two?
The more important part of my post was "What stops Delete.im from saving your messages?". What if you get an order from your government's legal apparatus to save my messages?
