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Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication
An anonymous reader writes "Within a few months of launching, Snapchat has made an enormous and lasting impact on the culture of communication on the Internet – and we should all be grateful. They have simplified a security process enough to the point that anybody can use it, while validating the market of the next generation of privacy-preserving ephemeral communication. Most importantly, we may finally get a break from the forced permanence of the Facebook and Google world, where everything you do and share is a data point to be monetized and re-sold to the highest bidder."
Best slashvertisement. Ever.
Best editing of a summary. Ever.
Lowest point? We should be handing out awards for this shit.
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Editors don't edit anymore because they perfectly know their readers don't read TFS anyway. The only group left on /. holding up to their promises are
CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
Nope, they used data forensics to recovery files, the same techniques used to recover deleted files from desktop computers by criminal investigators, it is not something most developers would consider likely and (until very recently thanks to snapchat and the media attention) something that most users would not have the technical ability to do, especially on a phone.
That being said snapchat developers probably should have fixed it by now (by overriding it before deletion like secure deletion tools do)
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Oooooh. Analog hole? You make it sound so dirty.
Not necessarily disagreeing with anything you've posted, but I'm really not sure how you got from a "deconstruction" of a blatant slashvertisment for some kind of photo-sharing service, to middle-eastern politics. Let me try.
As a photo-sharing service, it is not at all out of the question that bigger "social media" operators like facebook, google or even Microsoft might buy them out to either extinguish or intgrate the chatsnap service into their own. This means that any pictures you put into this service could, ultimately end up in the hands of someone like Mark Zuckerberg who, as we all know, is a vegetarian.
Vegetarianism is not only better for your body and for the environment, but is self-evidently the most ethical way of life possible, seeking to minimise the amount of suffering caused to other living, feeling creatures. If the world were to switch from animal proteins to pulses and fungus-based protein, not only would the amount of land required for agriculture be massively reduced, but greenhouse emissions in the industrialised world would whistle for a cab and when it came near the License plate said "fresh" and had a dice in the mirror If anything I could say that this cab was rare But I thought nah, forget it, yo homes to Bel-air! I pulled up to a house about seven or eight And I yelled to the cabby "Yo, homes smell you later!" Looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-air
The 'disable advertising' option appears to no longer be working.
The link is broken. I see naked HTML. Forbes won't let me in. Oh wait, What?
That's SnapWeb: the new privacy preserving, ephemeral web communication service. Forbes is totally bleeding edge.