Snapchats Don't Disappear

Posted by timothy on Friday May 10, 2013 @04:48PM from the un-disappearing-ink dept.

Mobile photo-sharing app SnapChat has one claim to fame, compared to other ways people might share photos from their cellphones: the photos, once viewed, disappear from view, after a pre-set length of time. However, it turns out they don't disappear as thoroughly as users might like. New submitter nefus writes with this excerpt from Forbes: "Richard Hickman of Decipher Forensics found that it's possible to pull Snapchat photos from Android phones simply by downloading data from the phone using forensics software and removing a '.NoMedia' file extension that was keeping the photos from being viewed on the device. He published his findings online and local TV station KSL has a video showing how it's done."

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But on Colbert by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-10 16:54 · Score: 2, Funny

The two douches who made it said it deletes it off the internet forever.
1. Re:But on Colbert by BasilBrush · 2013-05-11 01:50 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  People need to realize that nothing that you send to another person can ever be guaranteed to "self-destruct".
  Sure it can. I've seen it on Mission Impossible.
Easy fix! by closer2it · 2013-05-10 23:13 · Score: 5, Funny

All they need to do is create the ".NoMediaNoMedia" file. This will keep the photos and the file ".NoMedia" from being viewed on the device.