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They won't see a huge amount of users deleting accounts, but I'm sure future users will think twice before joining. Also, the value of the company.

This isn't an issue with convenience, this is an issue with Snapchat failing to fix a vulnerability. How relevant is find_friends to Snapchat now? Is it really needed? Are they get…

We're going to be releasing a statement shortly. Here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8231005

For the record we don't know about SnapchatDB. But it was a matter of time until this happened, the exploit still works with minor modifications, you just have to be smart about it…

We don't :) (but we'd be happy to take Snapchats money and help them out!) We documented two exploits, which are exploits, because we are exploiting code that has been incorrectly …

Sorry about that - I thought it was clear from the context of those off-the-cuff estimations that it was 6666 numbers (since that was based off of how many numbers you could scan, …

He isn't? Sorry that really is a mistake on my part. I thought I saw his name attached to it. I'm probably thinking of someone else, again I apologize to all parties involved.

Obvious privacy reasons that would probably get Snapchat sued, but otherwise, yes that would probably work.

We thought about that, and it would be pretty misleading. If they did find out data that way, they should really tell people how inaccurate it can be.

Definitely, lol. That's a pretty sneaky idea, I'm sure its possible with all the clients now available!

Hahahaha, I don't think making it harder to reverse would be any better, it would probably motivate people even more (deobfuscation is too much fun and fairly easy!). They should r…

I'm quite the fan of Steve Gibson, infact I use grsec on my boxes, sadly we only noticed this after our initial release, when it really was too late. If Steve Gibson hears of this,…

Thanks, and that's totally fine. I agree with you, Snapchats definitely flawed from the start, but as long as we get rid of gaping holes in their security such as the find_friends …

Hi, I'm one of the authors of the above release [1], and the exploit we primarily talked about (find_friends) isn't really an issue with the protocol as a whole. We understand the …