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Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

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I'm pretty sure this is a fake. This Kenny Withers guy - (NSFW) http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/t... seems to be posting it to a bunch of different news sites who are all reporting it now. Tineye some of the images that are purportedly from the "leak", the few that I've checked have been around for a long time.

This is interesting, as he seems to be working in Marketing it could be a stunt, right?

Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

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post #6

The more interesting thing about this is that it is likely to result in a higher 'hit' rating of nude/risky pics as somebody using snapsave inherently is intentionally attempting to keep pictures the sender knew were going to be automatically deleted. Another concern would be the age range in these pictures. I personally perceive snapchat as a 'young' persons app. I have a feeling a lot of these pictures will be clas…

Actually, i'm 27.. But the app itselve is quite funny while dating (except the best-friends visible part)

Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

#23
I still don't get it. How people can seriously believe that something you send to another, uncontrollable device can be displayed once but impossible to be saved for later use? This had to happen, sooner or later.

Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

#24

I'm pretty sure this is a fake. This Kenny Withers guy - (NSFW) http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/t... seems to be posting it to a bunch of different news sites who are all reporting it now. Tineye some of the images that are purportedly from the "leak", the few that I've checked have been around for a long time.

This is interesting, as he seems to be working in Marketing it could be a stunt, right?

A stunt that is designed to kill the app Snapsave.

Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

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post #9

More information can be found here: http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/t... Edit: NSFW, sorry for not noting that earlier.

Well there goes his database: "Error establishing a database connection" :).

Here is a Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ChdulMZ...

Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

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post #23

I still don't get it. How people can seriously believe that something you send to another, uncontrollable device can be displayed once but impossible to be saved for later use? This had to happen, sooner or later.

Good question. A lot of people don't believe in DRM, which operates on a very similar principle, but maybe because Snapchat is perceived as user-friendly while DRM isn't?

It's not as if they don't know about the analogue hole either - a lot of people who have absolutely no clue about how a computer works will, when asked to take a screenshot, point their camera/phone at the monitor.

Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

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post #23

I still don't get it. How people can seriously believe that something you send to another, uncontrollable device can be displayed once but impossible to be saved for later use? This had to happen, sooner or later.

"Because the other phone will automatically delete it, right?"

Even programmers end up doing things like putting ctitical validation into client-side code. Most people will not have even thought about Snapchat not working as advertised.

Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is interesting, as he seems to be working in Marketing it could be a stunt, right?

A stunt that is designed to kill the app Snapsave.

but doesn't it also brilliantly highlight the inherent problem with Snapchat?

Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

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post #6

The more interesting thing about this is that it is likely to result in a higher 'hit' rating of nude/risky pics as somebody using snapsave inherently is intentionally attempting to keep pictures the sender knew were going to be automatically deleted. Another concern would be the age range in these pictures. I personally perceive snapchat as a 'young' persons app. I have a feeling a lot of these pictures will be clas…

Actually, i'm 27.. But the app itselve is quite funny while dating (except the best-friends visible part)

You can turn it off.
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