The more interesting thing about this is that it is likely to result in a higher 'hit' rating of nude/risky pics as somebody using snapsave inherently is intentionally attempting to keep pictures the sender knew were going to be automatically deleted.
Another concern would be the age range in these pictures. I personally perceive snapchat as a 'young' persons app. I have a feeling a lot of these pictures will be classified as child porn (sub 18 pics).
Snapchat is a very young people oriented app 50% of all users are aged 13-17 which almost definitely means that there are significant amounts of illegal pictures being hosted. This brings in an interesting area of questioning, does this mean that Snapsave could get in any sort of legal trouble for storing these images?
The hackers in this case have compromised a lot of young peoples intimate images which I imagine would make them very liable and open themselves up to legal troubles in that domain too, and I can't help but feel sorry for the people who did send these pictures who had them stored against their knowledge by someone they may have cared about and are now out there for any perv to grab a copy of.
This brings in an interesting area of questioning, does this mean that Snapsave could get in any sort of legal trouble for storing these images?
I find it hard to believe, what makes Snapsave different from any other file hosting service? As far as I know, no service provider is liable unless they are aware of any specific illegal content being uploaded.
I wonder if this will hurt snapchat. $10bil valuation and this breach hits at the heart of their product. Maybe yahoo can withdraw their $20mil if they have not actually handed it over.
Agreed. I'd also be very surprised if Snapsave was routing user traffic through their servers. Apps like 6snap connect directly to Snapchat and everything works fine... so storing images on their own servers shouldn't be necessary.
I understand the confusion that you may have regarding this "Snappening" event. I am Kenny Withers, the one that chronicled the original chatter on 4chan and blogged about it. My only purpose for exposing this event was to create awareness of the now confirmed leak of almost 100,000 stolen images and videos from the snapsaved.com website. My website has suffered outages as a result of this event, the website overloaded my old webhost and they did not have the ability to scale to handle the traffic. I have since switched hosts. To read more about the details of this discovery, please read the following Forbes article: forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/10/snapchat-hack-not-a-hoax-says-snappening-chronicler/
I still don't get it. How people can seriously believe that something you send to another, uncontrollable device can be displayed once but impossible to be saved for later use? This had to happen, sooner or later.
Good question. A lot of people don't believe in DRM, which operates on a very similar principle, but maybe because Snapchat is perceived as user-friendly while DRM isn't?
It's not as if they don't know about the analogue hole either - a lot of people who have absolutely no clue about how a computer works will, when asked to take a screenshot, point their camera/phone at the monitor.
"Because the other phone will automatically delete it, right?"
Even programmers end up doing things like putting ctitical validation into client-side code. Most people will not have even thought about Snapchat not working as advertised.
34 comments
[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 86.4 ms ] threadAnother concern would be the age range in these pictures. I personally perceive snapchat as a 'young' persons app. I have a feeling a lot of these pictures will be classified as child porn (sub 18 pics).
The hackers in this case have compromised a lot of young peoples intimate images which I imagine would make them very liable and open themselves up to legal troubles in that domain too, and I can't help but feel sorry for the people who did send these pictures who had them stored against their knowledge by someone they may have cared about and are now out there for any perv to grab a copy of.
I find it hard to believe, what makes Snapsave different from any other file hosting service? As far as I know, no service provider is liable unless they are aware of any specific illegal content being uploaded.
Edit: NSFW, sorry for not noting that earlier.
Here is a Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ChdulMZ...
Tineye some of the images that are purportedly from the "leak", the few that I've checked have been around for a long time.
Thanks
It's not as if they don't know about the analogue hole either - a lot of people who have absolutely no clue about how a computer works will, when asked to take a screenshot, point their camera/phone at the monitor.
Even programmers end up doing things like putting ctitical validation into client-side code. Most people will not have even thought about Snapchat not working as advertised.