Thousands of private fotos leaked, privacy disaster for Quiptxt.com users

Seems they had no security at all (just a random 5 character hash)..

Reddit users are seemingly busy sharing nsfw pictures and linking them to facebook accounts, will probably result in a couple of suicides when all is said and done :(

There is some cross-over, but it appear to be mostly /b/.

Two things in this story that are not new, but still amazing to me.

1) A significant portion of people love taking pictures of themselves naked. This portion seems to be growing.

2) Another significant potion of people love publishing and making fun of people for whatever reason they can find. These people will dig through your trash, hack your servers, socially-engineer your passwords, etc. The more they can publicly debase you the happier they are. This portion of the population is also growing.

Yes, I understand the technical angle to this story is whacked security. I'm just amazed at the comments over on reddit (I don't visit reddit very often) From reddit I surfed over to a couple of other links (drama-a-pedia or something?) and the festival of public debasement continues. Somebody even mentioned hacking some girl's senior picture and uploading her naked pics. Man that has to make you feel really special to do something like that.

     If you launch something like QuipTxt, make it obvious to 
     people that their images are public

Google Picasa stores images as public URLs without any such warning. Because with random URL's, you effectively have passworded each image. Even more secure than if they were all locked into a nice MySQL database, because then they would all be behind only a single password.

I think you don't have to freak out users with too much information. The images are effectively password controlled.

The problem here is that the passwords were too short (and sent in plain text via SMS).

So what happens to QuipTxt now?