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Technically a misuse of the -ception meme.

Interception? Seems like a reasonable use to me.

As the developer, I was going for combining "Snapchat" with "Interception", and "Snapception" was the result. I wasn't even thinking of Inception at the time, an oversight on my part.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure they were going for a contraction of Snapchat interception.

Yeah, that's a misuse. It should be something along the lines of "a blank within a blank".

"interception", not "inception".

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https://github.com/thebradbain/snapception/blob/master/snapc... Oh lordy. I wonder if they eval() arbitrary input from users as well.

Developer here — I think I recognized I had written some hastily written code in the bottom of my repo. Please, feel free to submit a pull request.

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Snapchat's supposed valuation at $10b while they appear to be completely inattentive to the security of their product is hard to reconcile.

What's also really sad is that the FTC is actually on their case, but they're evidently in no capacity to throw their weight around enough to put a stop to this.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interception? Seems like a reasonable use to me.

As the developer, I was going for combining "Snapchat" with "Interception", and "Snapception" was the result. I wasn't even thinking of Inception at the time, an oversight on my part.

Intersnaption?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interception? Seems like a reasonable use to me.

As the developer, I was going for combining "Snapchat" with "Interception", and "Snapception" was the result. I wasn't even thinking of Inception at the time, an oversight on my part.

I too thought of Intersnaption.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interception? Seems like a reasonable use to me.

As the developer, I was going for combining "Snapchat" with "Interception", and "Snapception" was the result. I wasn't even thinking of Inception at the time, an oversight on my part.

Snapper?

Snagchat?

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https://github.com/thebradbain/snapception/blob/master/snapc... Oh lordy. I wonder if they eval() arbitrary input from users as well.

Developer here — I think I recognized I had written some hastily written code in the bottom of my repo. Please, feel free to submit a pull request.

I think maybe I should've been more clear. I was referring to Snapchat's horrible security policies in that comment, it was not a criticism of your code.

Re: Show HN: Snapception – Intercept all snapchats received over the network

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interception? Seems like a reasonable use to me.

The -ception suffix is typically used for nested abstraction; for example running a virtual machine within a virtual machine could be referred to as VMception. This is in reference to the 2010 movie Inception, a major device of which is the use of nested dreams, or /a dream(?: within a dream)*/.

A popular use, as you say, since 2010. But more popularly in use for centuries in words like perception, exception, deception, contraception, etc.
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