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Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

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Re: Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

#11
post #8

Based on the same premise that I would let someone secretly save my unread snail mail by giving them a key to my house.

Which a lot of people do. They give a trusted entity (a neighbor) their access token (keys) to check on and maintain their property while on vacation.

Re: Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

#12
post #8

Based on the same premise that I would let someone secretly save my unread snail mail by giving them a key to my house.

Are you implying you lock your mailbox?

Are you implying you lock your mailbox?

Would that be surprising to you? I assume you might be an American - I was really surprised when I visited the US and noticed that most people use unlocked boxes located outside of their houses to get their mail. Where I live people either lock their mailboxes or they get mail through a slot in their locked door - nobody leaves their mail accessible.

Re: Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

#13
The problem with this service (or others like it) is the next eventual step is making your private snaps you've saved with the service public.

Snapchat itself faces the same problem. They are sitting the greatest trove of amateur porn ever, and eventually they need to figure out how to make money.

Re: Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

#14
post #8

Based on the same premise that I would let someone secretly save my unread snail mail by giving them a key to my house.

Which a lot of people do. They give a trusted entity (a neighbor) their access token (keys) to check on and maintain their property while on vacation.

Except that you know where your neighbor lives and are able to find him in the event something goes wrong.

Re: Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

#15
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you implying you lock your mailbox?

Mine is certainly locked. Many places in Britain also just have the letter box in the front door, which I assume the parent is referencing.

My (US) house has such a slot but it has been glued shut decades ago so that nobody drops dog poop, or worse, a flaming piece of mail, into it.

Re: Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

#16
I wouldn't trust a service like this, although I know many people will (or just won't think about that aspect). The main point I'm seeing from this is that it devalues the Snapchat service immensely. I know there are other services offering the same functionality as well. I'm sure it will be impossible for Snapchat to keep them out, and it could destroy Snapchat as they begin to catch on. I'm now less likely to send snaps as I know they can more easily be recorded forever.

Re: Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

#17
post #13

The problem with this service (or others like it) is the next eventual step is making your private snaps you've saved with the service public. Snapchat itself faces the same problem. They are sitting the greatest trove of amateur porn ever, and eventually they need to figure out how to make money.

If you know everyone's social graph and you use sneaky ways of identifying people even when they are using different computers or using the private/incognito mode of browsers (which is definitely technologically possible) then perhaps it would be possible to serve up "private" erotic photographs only to a subset of users who are maximally disconnected from the people in the photographs.

I wonder how long you could get away with pulling off something like that if you were as sneaky as possible.

Re: Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

#18
post #8

Based on the same premise that I would let someone secretly save my unread snail mail by giving them a key to my house.

Which a lot of people do. They give a trusted entity (a neighbor) their access token (keys) to check on and maintain their property while on vacation.

... I would never, ever do that.

A sibling, sure. But a neighbour? Hell no. If I haven't seen you get born, you sure are not getting unlimited access to where I live.

Re: Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

#19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which a lot of people do. They give a trusted entity (a neighbor) their access token (keys) to check on and maintain their property while on vacation.

... I would never, ever do that. A sibling, sure. But a neighbour? Hell no. If I haven't seen you get born, you sure are not getting unlimited access to where I live.

This seems sad to me. You don't have a single neighbor you'd trust with a key to your house?

Re: Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

#20
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you implying you lock your mailbox?

Are you implying you lock your mailbox? Would that be surprising to you? I assume you might be an American - I was really surprised when I visited the US and noticed that most people use unlocked boxes located outside of their houses to get their mail. Where I live people either lock their mailboxes or they get mail through a slot in their locked door - nobody leaves their mail accessible.

Mail slots are typically used in America in all row-homes (aka, very nearly all houses in towns or cities). Apartment buildings almost always have locked mailboxes, unless you are really scraping the bottom or your apartment is in a converted row-home (my old apartment had a single mail slot on the front door, the 3 different apartments just sorted each others mail). Private developments often have locked mailboxes outdoors by the entry gate.

Unlocked mailboxes outside the house really only exist in rural areas or regular suburbs (to be fair, these sort of homes probably make up a plurality of homes in America).

The bigger problem is what happens with packages. Unless you live in an apartment building with a staffed leasing/mail office, chances are your packages get left by the door (usually in plain site), or you need to be home to sign for them.

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