Think your smutty Snapchats can't be saved by dorks? Think again Sexting has become even more inadvisable following the launch of an app which can surreptitiously store images sent using the self-destructing photo service Snapchat. Anyone looking to broadcast pictures of their naughty bits was given a boost when Snapchat first launched, because it purported to destroy images a few moments …
but if you post cock and fanny pictures of yourself, then gripe when they are available for all and sundry to see, you have no-one to blame but yourself.
One minutes fun can turn into years of regret......
If you don't have the common sense or maturity to deal with issues like this, don't take the pics in the bloody first place.
Yes agreed, but peer pressure and teen hormones don't exactly help with rational decisions. From an adult point of view, yes if you do it them there is no one to blame but yourself. However, children even if they are in their teens are impressionable and sometimes very stupid.
The fact that there is such an app will go round like wildfire and hopefully the learning curve will not be steep. Just because the app exists may mean those that might be stupid enough to do it might pause and think again.
> Just because the app exists may mean those that might be stupid enough to do it might pause and think again.
Of course not. Teens (and older) were "sexting" well before Snapchat existed (well before the word "sexting" was ever invented by the media, in fact). Snapchat may or may not have made things worst recently (my money is on "didn't change a thing except for the wallet of its operator"). Snapsave won't make a difference either.
Actually I'm pretty convinced that all these apps come and go without changing one bit either the number of nude selfies sent OR the number of them "leaked". There's always ways to save these and post them on 4Chan, and always will.
Ultimately, leaked selfies have very little impact (unless part of something bigger such as systematic bullying - or the authorities meddling in very creatively moronic ways, such as registering every recipient and the sender as a sex offender). I would say it carries about the same "life-ruining" potential as "that day Millie wet her pants in PhysEd". But I may be wrong: it has to do with (mildly) naughty bits, so it's probably straight to hell or something.
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Just put a boundary network device with a sniffer, something like a Linux firewall. Allows you to record all IP traffic flowing through it using something like tcpdump. Doesn't need any antenna.
I kept reminding my kids that I could, if I wanted, see the URL of all web pages they visited and a lot of their other traffic over the household LAN (can't do much about 3G, but that's another story). Made them much more 'net aware. I know that they could obscure the data using encryption or a VPN, but this would actually achieve part of what I want them to do, and that is to understand what it is to be on-line safely.
For the record, although a lot of the URL and connection data the data is kept on the Firewall for months, I've never felt it necessary to snoop on them (although I have used the data to prove I could, and also to resolve bandwidth contention between them). It's amazing what being open about what you could do can achieve, without actually doing it.
quote: "(can't do much about 3G, but that's another story)"
Setup a femtocell for the relevant network(s) in the house routed through your firewall; I suspect that you'd need further messing around in order to make sense of the data (if it is not encrypted it bloody should be), but it would technically be capturing UMTS traffic from devices and routing it through your gateway ready for logging and analysis.
Whether you can actually be bothered is of course a whole different story, and of course it's only governments and TLAs that believe they have the right to do that to citizens with impunity. YMMV ;)
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When people approach mobile computing as though it's Consumer Electronics (which it never really is, in the right hands), it's no wonder that they're naive to the claims of Snapchat and the like. Eventually, they will learn that data is only likely to respect their wishes with regards to privacy in a very limited, legally-defined set of circumstances.
It's simple: if you don't want it on the internet then don't let other people get access to it. If you don't send a picture or email then people can't forward it. It all comes down to "think before you send", and if necessary hit the 'delete' button instead.
On the other side of the coin, if we get a generation where everyone has naked pictures of themselves floating around the internet then perhaps we won't get quite so hung up about nudity and it'll lose the power to embarrass people simply because everyone does it.
"if we get a generation where everyone has naked pictures of themselves floating around the internet then perhaps we won't get quite so hung up about nudity"
except that quite a lot of that generation are under 16 when they take those pictures, which potentially makes the 'producers and distributors' and anyone 'in possession' of them guilty of very serious offences...
... raising the possibility that an impetuously-sent sext could be stored, distributed and then hang around on the internet forever.
Buried somwhere in amongst the vast swathes of porn which fill the internet.
Snap save is going to ruin a lot of girls lives
— Mary ✌✌✨ (@MarySchlabach) August 9, 2013
Which of course will be completely someone elses fault, and nothing whatsoever to do with them taking and sending the bloody pictures in the first place.
Why is it going to ruin girls' lives and not boys' huh? You don't think the world knowing I had a peanut dick isn't going to harm my reputation as a stud muffin?
Or do you mean my Ferrari and my Rolex and my 12 acre homestead and my chain of gymnasiums are already giving it away so the photo will do nothing?
Don't put anything on the Internet that you wouldn't like domestic and foreign intelligence services collecting, sending to the special operations department of any other agency or company that they like and then deliberately conflating into some supposed crime or media sanctioned taboo in order to repress you societally.
The person you sent this Snap to has saved a screenshot'
- I know you saved a copy of that picture. The app told me you did. Delete it right now.
: OK. I deleted it....
There's always going to be a trust loop that can easily be broken if you're sending pics of your bits around. If you don't trust that person enough to let them determine what happens with those pics don't send them.
Peer pressure is something you're going to have to learn to deal with, might as well start dealing with it now.
I like the comment about how Snap Save is going to ruin the lives of a lot of girs, when the real issue is the judgement of those aforementioned persons.
The golden rule of social media is:
"Never post anything that you wouldn't want seen by everyone in your family or during a job interview!"
not too much, at least.
Many of the comments here seem ignorant of what Snapchat is, talking about "posting" and "social media", and as a result are being unfair to the people who have used it, I think. Snapchat is supposed to be an instant messaging app for sharing pictures privately with one or more users on the other end in real time. It even uses encryption, and comes with the additional assurance that even the recipient can only see but not save the picture (a type of DRM).
Trouble is almost all of that is based on a false sense of security. The encryption is badly done and even without special software, there's nothing to stop the recipient from screenshoting the app, although it will try to notify the sender if that happens (not sure how that helps much). It's easy for people like us to say "You should have known that wouldn't work." But unfortunately most people, teens or otherwise, don't have the technical understanding to instantly see all the problems with this system.
Reminds me of a company that boasted that users were unable to copy their picture off the internet.
I was able to copy their picture by opening notepad thus making the notepad app retain focus over the web browser then I made them show dide by side. my notepad on the right and the wbsite with image I was going to copy. notepad still retained focus then I hit printscreen(Prtscn) Then pasted the results to paint brush.
Ahhhh bypass complete making the website claim pure rubbish.
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