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Snapchat Users' Phone Numbers Exposed To Hackers
beaverdownunder writes with an extract from The Guardian, based on a security diclosure from Gibson Security: "Snapchat users' phone numbers may be exposed to hackers due to an unresolved security vulnerability, according to a new report released by a group of Australian hackers. Snapchat is a social media program that allows users to send pictures to each other that disappear within 10 seconds. Users can create profiles with detailed personal information and add friends that can view the photos a user shares. But Gibson Security, a group of anonymous hackers from Australia, has published a new report with detailed coding that they say shows how a vulnerability can be exploited to reveal phone numbers of users, as well as their privacy settings." Snapchat downplays the significance of the hole.
Not defending it, but the way Snapchat works is that you find your "friends" based on their phone number. Not amazingly brilliant, but that's why.
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Especially when they basically have lied about the photos being deleted.
But the phone numbers disappear after 10 seconds, right?
-Dave
This is why I give out fake information. I have no reason to trust them so I give fake birthdays, fake phone numbers, fake addresses, fake names, what ever it takes. There is no reason to give them valid information. They are not to be trusted. You should pick and choose which information you want to give. Feel no obligation to answer a question truthfully just because some corporation asks you.
Obstificate.