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Snapchats Don't Disappear
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."
How hard could it be to store it in RAM as it is received and then zero out the memory when finished. Sure it is not remotely hack proof but at least when it is broken you can only get new photos.
Or if you don't have the RAM to store the pic store an encryption key.
If you wanted actual security, you'd use a real program to do it instead of an app.
If you wanted actual security, you wouldn't have it on a computer.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
"However, once the photo is opened, and the timer goes off, Snapchat does in fact delete the photo."
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/09/actually-snapchat-photos-are-just-as-deleted-as-any-other-file-you-trash/
If you wanted actual security, you'd use a real program to do it instead of an app.
If you wanted actual security, you wouldn't have it on a computer.
If you wanted actual security, you wouldn't send it to someone else's computer.
Forensics software? Just open up the folder. I mean, you have to rooted, but that's not really weird. Look, here's someone talking about getting pics and vids before even viewing them in Snapchat. Back in March. If you have to output something to the user, they're going to have to be able to get at it one way or another.
Wooh, another completely incorrect Slashdot title for the win. Because the pics DO disappear when you open them. Both from your phone and their servers. There's just an exploit where rooted phones can view/copy the pictures before they are opened/deleted. "Don't disappear" =/ discretely copyable.
They'd likely be in your social circles, too, so you'd catch shit for your evil deed.
Thank goodness that people sending photographs of their genitals to other people don't have any impulsive friends, make poor choices in who to hang out with, or have ever befriended random people on the net and quickly deem them friends.
Teens in particular are well known for making choices based on long term thinking and a strong sense of never engaging in revenge or social warfare. First world schools are a shining beacon on the hill for compassion, empathy and an overwhelming sense of equality and egalitarian concern for the mental well being of others. You are right: these people would never engage in behavior that damaged another peer. Skilled bullies and social climbers are never popular in middle school and high school, and embarrassing events are quickly hushed up.
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
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.
Yep. He means: "Do not feed me. I'm a troll."
-- Cheers!
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.