for secure chat applications, you
will often hear these advertised as encrypted, or ephemeral,
or time-bombing, self-destructing.
All the buzzwords are used.
What it means is these apps are telling you that, if and when
you send a message or send an attachment,
that it will only exist for a period of time
before it disappears.
But what does disappear actually mean?
Does it mean that it's simply marked Deleted?
Does it go to a new table?
Does it go to the free pages?
And you have to look at it in hex.
Is it truly never saved to the device?
If it's saved to the device, is it encrypted?
So we have lots of false claims from these apps,
and we want to show you some tricks on how
to manipulate and handle a phone that
has true ephemeral applications on them.