Snapchat

[DeadlyDynasty]

This is exclusively for boobies, right?

[apalisoc_9]

I don't even know what snapchat is and I already know I hate it. I got a few annoying automated messages from Girls from school asking to download and use Snapchat...probably some new Social media bs.

[DeadlyDynasty]

You send or receive a pic on your cell, but only have 10 secs to view it.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Now you can send dickpics to that chick 3 cubicles down w/o worrying about a sexual harassment complaint.

[apalisoc_9]

You send or receive a pic on your cell, but only have 10 secs to view it.

I might have missed an opportunity....

[RD2191]

Couldn't someone just screenshot that shit?

[FkLA]

What if I manage to save it within those 10 secs ?

[apalisoc_9]

Couldn't someone just screenshot that shit?

The app probably has a script that disallows screenshot when you're using the app.

^ Same, probably has some sort of script that disallows saving..

[I. Hustle]

Now you can send dickpics to that chick 3 cubicles down w/o worrying about a sexual harassment complaint.


Couldn't someone just screenshot that shit?

I need confirmation. I might have gotten overly excited before reading that screenshot post. Pics may or may not have gone out.

[cantthinkofanything]

The app probably has a script that disallows screenshot when you're using the app.

what if you took a picture of the screen with a different camera?

[apalisoc_9]

what if you took a picture of the screen with a different camera?

I don't know man. 10 seconds is way too fast, chances are you're going to end up with a super crappy copy mainly because you're taking screen pictures and only have 10 seconds...Could easily claim fake

[RD2191]

:lol

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TECH (http://www.forbes.com/technology)| 12/26/2013 @ 12:56PM |1,172 viewsSnapchat's API Is Hacked And Exploits Allowing Phone Number Collection And Bogus Account Creation PublishedComment Now (http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/12/26/snapchats-api-is-hacked-and-exploits-allowing-phone-number-collection-and-bogus-account-creation-published/#comment_reply) Follow Comments





So, if you happen to use Snapchat you might want to think a little about what you’re using it to do. Some very annoyed hackers have just published the API to the service: and a couple of exploits that allow some serious information harvesting to take place. The full release is here (http://gibsonsec.org/snapchat/fulldisclosure/) and this is an example of one of the exploits that can be done:

This is one of our personal favorites since it’s just so ridiculously easy to exploit. A single request (once logged in, of course!) to /ph/find_friends can find out whether or not a phone number is attached to an account.
This is one of the things we initially wrote about in our previous release, approximately four months ago (at the time of writing)! They’ve yet to add any rate limiting to this, so we thought we’d add a non-watered down version of the exploit to this release; maybe Evan Spiegel will fix it when someone finds his phone number via this?
We did some back-of-the-envelope calculations based on some number crunching we did (on an unused range of numbers). We were able to crunch through 10 thousand phone numbers (an entire sub-range in the American number format (XXX) YYY-ZZZZ – we did the Z’s) in approximately 7 minutes on a gigabyte line on a virtual server. Given some asynchronous optimizations, we believe that you could potentially crunch through that many in as little as a minute and a half (or, as a worst case, two minutes). This means you’d be railing through as many as 6666 phone numbers a minute (or, in our worst case, 5000!).
Using the reported 8 million users in June as a rough estimate for Snapchat’s user base (however, it will have undoubtedly exponentially grown since then), we can do some rough calculations on how long it would take to crunch through all of Snapchat’s user base:
Given user_base = 8e6 (8 million), and a numbers crunchable per minute (ncpm) of approximately 6666, we can assume that it would take approximately 20 hours for one $10 virtual server to eat through and find every user’s phone number (hours = user_base / (ncpm*60)). At our worst case of ncpm = 5000, it would take approximately 26.6 hours.
For those not technically minded the basic point: it is not a good thing that this can be done to Snapchat’s software.
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There’s a less technical description of what is goingon here (http://www.zdnet.com/researchers-publish-snapchat-code-allowing-phone-number-matching-after-exploit-disclosures-ignored-7000024629/):

After having its security disclosure go ignored since August, Gibson Security has published Snapchat’s previously undocumented developer hooks (API) and code for two exploits that allow mass matching of phone numbers with names and mass creation of bogus accounts.
The Australian hackers announced its publication of Snapchat’s API and the two exploits on the GibSec Twitter account on Christmas Eve — which by time difference is Christmas Day in Australia.
Now anyone can build an exact clone of Snapchat’s API and stalk the popular app’s alleged 8 million users.
Now the real point of all of this is not to point to Snapchat’s software and point out that it’s got some holes in it. There’s hardly a piece of software out there that doesn’t have some holes in it. Rather it’s to make the point that all of this was pointed out four months ago and we would all rather like people to fix such flaws in their software when they are pointed out to them. And that’s what is driving these hackers. Not at all that there are flaws: but that after they pointed out the flaws they weren’t fixed. That’s something that doesn’t bode well for the future security of whatever it is that Snapchat might develop into. And that, given the current valuations and offers at $3 billion and up is something that perhaps the company might want to start thinking about more seriously.
Oh, and the second exploit is worrying as well: it allows the mass creation of bogus accounts. That, in turn, could lead to mass spamming of the service which really isn’t going to make it any more popular.




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Snapchat's API Is Hacked And Exploits Allowing Phone Number Collection And Bogus Account Creation Published

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So, if you happen to use Snapchat you might want to think a little about what you’re using it to do. Some very annoyed hackers have just published the API to the service: and a couple of exploits that allow some serious information harvesting to take place. The full release is here (http://gibsonsec.org/snapchat/fulldisclosure/) and this is an example of one of the exploits that can be done:
This is one of our personal favorites since it’s just so ridiculously easy to exploit. A single request (once logged in, of course!) to /ph/find_friends can find out whether or not a phone number is attached to an account.
This is one of the things we initially wrote about in our previous release, approximately four months ago (at the time of writing)! They’ve yet to add any rate limiting to this, so we thought we’d add a non-watered down version of the exploit to this release; maybe Evan Spiegel will fix it when someone finds his phone number via this?
We did some back-of-the-envelope calculations based on some number crunching we did (on an unused range of numbers). We were able to crunch through 10 thousand phone numbers (an entire sub-range in the American number format (XXX) YYY-ZZZZ – we did the Z’s) in approximately 7 minutes on a gigabyte line on a virtual server. Given some asynchronous optimizations, we believe that you could potentially crunch through that many in as little as a minute and a half (or, as a worst case, two minutes). This means you’d be railing through as many as 6666 phone numbers a minute (or, in our worst case, 5000!).
Using the reported 8 million users in June as a rough estimate for Snapchat’s user base (however, it will have undoubtedly exponentially grown since then), we can do some rough calculations on how long it would take to crunch through all of Snapchat’s user base:
Given user_base = 8e6 (8 million), and a numbers crunchable per minute (ncpm) of approximately 6666, we can assume that it would take approximately 20 hours for one $10 virtual server to eat through and find every user’s phone number (hours = user_base / (ncpm*60)). At our worst case of ncpm = 5000, it would take approximately 26.6 hours.

For those not technically minded the basic point: it is not a good thing that this can be done to Snapchat’s software.
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There’s a less technical description of what is goingon here (http://www.zdnet.com/researchers-publish-snapchat-code-allowing-phone-number-matching-after-exploit-disclosures-ignored-7000024629/):
After having its security disclosure go ignored since August, Gibson Security has published Snapchat’s previously undocumented developer hooks (API) and code for two exploits that allow mass matching of phone numbers with names and mass creation of bogus accounts.
The Australian hackers announced its publication of Snapchat’s API and the two exploits on the GibSec Twitter account on Christmas Eve — which by time difference is Christmas Day in Australia.
Now anyone can build an exact clone of Snapchat’s API and stalk the popular app’s alleged 8 million users.

Now the real point of all of this is not to point to Snapchat’s software and point out that it’s got some holes in it. There’s hardly a piece of software out there that doesn’t have some holes in it. Rather it’s to make the point that all of this was pointed out four months ago and we would all rather like people to fix such flaws in their software when they are pointed out to them. And that’s what is driving these hackers. Not at all that there are flaws: but that after they pointed out the flaws they weren’t fixed. That’s something that doesn’t bode well for the future security of whatever it is that Snapchat might develop into. And that, given the current valuations and offers at $3 billion and up is something that perhaps the company might want to start thinking about more seriously.
Oh, and the second exploit is worrying as well: it allows the mass creation of bogus accounts. That, in turn, could lead to mass spamming of the service which really isn’t going to make it any more popular.




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I'm a Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute in London, a writer here and there on this and that and strangely, one of the global experts on the metal scandium, one of the rare earths. An odd thing to be but someone does have to be such and in this flavour of our universe I am. I have written for The Times, Daily Telegraph, Express, Independent, City AM, Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer and online for the ASI, IEA, Social Affairs Unit, Spectator, The Guardian, The Register and Techcentralstation. I've also ghosted pieces for several UK politicians in many of the UK papers, including the Daily Sport.


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:cry Jeves forgive me pls
unforgivable imo

[lefty]

unforgivable imo
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7063889152/h48BABE6B/

[DJR210]

Now you can send dickpics to that chick 3 cubicles down w/o worrying about a sexual harassment complaint.

Shit, that bitch will conspire with another broad and you're STILL fucked.

[m>s]

Snap chat is for getting pics not sending them. Just find some naive big titty bimbo who thinks she's safe and screenshot.

[ginobili's bald spot]

Snapchat is fucking pointless. Inventing an app that does what I could already do texting? If you ho's wanna send titty pics, don't be half ass about it. The number of people using snapchat should be limited to those who want to send nudes and who are too pussy to own it and too stupid to know what a screenshot is.

[Drachen]

:cry Jeves forgive me pls
You should have just snap chatted it. Hell, I only read it for ten seconds before moving on.

[Holden_Caulfield]

it tells you if and who screenshots your pics :lol

[KarmaKarma]

Agreed.
:rollin:spin:blah:downspin::whine


Snapchat is fucking pointless. Inventing an app that does what I could already do texting? If you ho's wanna send titty pics, don't be half ass about it. The number of people using snapchat should be limited to those who want to send nudes and who are too pussy to own it and too stupid to know what a screenshot is.