Snapchat

How I Hacked Snapchat’s Dumb Anti-Robot Security In Less Than 30 Minutes

I woke up this morning and saw an article detailing Snapchat’s new verification system designed to help cut back the snap spam that seems to be slowly infiltrating the service. You may not have seen it but if not I will summarize it for you. They basically have you choose from amongst a bunch of…

4.6 Million Snapchat User Names and Phone Numbers Leaked (Check Yours)

Oh dear. In an inauspicious start to 2014 for both Snapchat and its users, a website appears to have published user name and phone number information for 4.6 million accounts. The leaked user info from SnapchatDB matches phone numbers to user names, and was in retrospect probably inevitable. Just a week ago, a group of…

Snapchat’s Update Lets You Replay One Snap Per Day

Snapchat just rolled out a big update with a bunch of new features, the most important being Replay. Now, every day brings a one-time chance to review the most recent message in your stream. If that makes you think twice about what you’ve been Snapchatting, maybe it’s time to reevaluate your life. The Replay option…

Get This App That Lets You Secretly Save Snapchats While You Still Can

Dick pic enthusiasts and general voyeurs, rejoice! The new app SnapHack lets you effortlessly download any Snap (pic and video alike) without the person on the other end ever having any idea that their privacy has just been demolished. https://gizmodo.com/snapchats-been-handing-unopened-messages-over-to-the-p-1445103119 The more traditional way of making the ephemeral Snaps permanent has been to take a…

Snapchat’s Been Handing Unopened Messages Over to the Police

This summer’s NSA revelations opened a lot of people’s eyes. The government can (and does) surveil the American people, sometimes scooping data right off the servers of Google and Facebook. But surely Snapchat, the service that deletes all messages after they’ve been read, is safe? Not so much. Snapchat just admitted in a blog post…

Snapchat Now Has a 24-Hour Self-Destruct Timeline

Snapchat’s unique selling point has always been the fact that images and videos could be shared with one other person before—poof!—they went up in smoke. Now, though, the app is branching out, to provide a 24-hour timeline to share with friends. Called Stories, it’s Snapchat’s attempt at making its service both more social and a…

Finally, an App That Saves Your Snapchats Without Telling the Sender

Snapchat really broke the mold with this whole single-serve messaging feature. Send a friend a sexy pic without the risk of anybody else seeing it? What genius! Of course some enterprising app developer was going to come along and ruin it. Snap Save is a new iOS app that lets you save all of your…

iOS 7 Will Let You Take Secret Screenshots of Your Sexy Snapchats

Fellow sexters or those who like self-destructing pictures and videos, ya better listen up. Snapchat and iOS 7 might have a wee bit of a problem because in iOS 7 you can screenshot Snapchat photos without ever alerting the original person. Basically, you can screenshot without ever getting caught. Currently, when you screenshot a photo…

Please Don’t Ruin Instagram With Crappy Videos

An Instagram photo carries a certain artificial heft to it. There’s a sense of importance, or at least permanence, to the photos we post to these accounts that you don’t get from tweets or even status updates on Facebook. Instagram isn’t naturally this way; it’s developed this weight because everything on Instagram is beautiful. And…

According to an unnamed TechCrunch source, Facebook is getting ready to launch video sharing on Instagram at the end of the month. The announcement could come at this Thursday’s Facebook press event so get your fun compounds and portmanteau’s ready. InstaVine? Snapstagram? MyFaceTube?

efemr Is Snapchat For Twitter Which Can Only End Well

So yeah, efemr is a web app that scrubs tweets after the amount of time you hashtag. Want a tweet gone after five minutes? #5m. Two hours? #2h. You get the gist. The usual retweet concerns still apply, but if no one interacts with the tweet while it’s up, it will pretty much disappear when…

Snapchat is now handling almost four times Instagram’s load at over 150 million photos a day—that’s a lot of dick pics.

SnapChat Could Start Breaking Up Your Sexts With Ads

Stopping by CNBC earlier today, SnapChat‘s CEO Evan Spiegel made the vague semi-announcement that the notorious tween sexting app is currently experimenting with “this really awesome new ad format.” Whatever that means. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-way-to-sext-5966591 As with any hyper-popular app, the move to paid advertising was inevitable, but given SnapChat’s self described focus on “ephemeral media,” it’s…

FBI Employees Can’t Stop Sexting On Their Government-Issued Phones

Fidelity, bravery, integrity. This is the motto of the FBI, and this is the motto of the men and women who can’t stop using their government-issued phones to send their coworkers dirty dick pics. And while it’s probably never a good idea to sext your coworkers, when you work for what is essentially a group…

ProxToMe App Lets You Send Files to Anyone Nearby Because The World Needs More Lawsuits

The newest app just begging to be hijacked by sexting tweens and exhibitionists alike has come to us in the form of ProxToMe, a file-sharing app that lets you send anything you want directly to any stranger’s phone in your proximity. Surely, nothing could go wrong. ProxToMe, thankfully, only allows you to send your file…

How to Easily Capture Images In SnapChat Without the Other Person Noticing

We knew that SnapChat security sucked, but not this much: there is a method to easily capture images sent through SnapChap with no technical knowhow whatsoever. Just a couple clicks and, boom, that nudie pic is yours to keep forever without the other person knowing about it. Before there was a method that required multiple…

How You Can Save Snapchat Videos Forever After You’ve Watched Them

Snapchat, the sexting app of choice recently cloned by Facebook, might not be as private as you think. BuzzFeed reports that video files sent using the app are actually not deleted from the phone immediately—meaning they can be copied onto a computer and watched over and over. https://gizmodo.com/poke-facebook-just-cloned-snapchat-update-hands-on-5970590 BuzzFeed describes the simple process required to…

Poke: Facebook Just Cloned Snapchat (Update: Hands-on)

Facebook has a new Snapchat knockoff app that just hit iTunes (no Android version yet). Facebook Poke—yes, Poke!—wants to be your go-to app for photo and video messsaging, but will anybody want to engage in Snapchat weirdness on Facebook? And does this mean Facebook owns your sexts? Facebook response and hands-on below. Make no mistake,…

Snapchat’s Android App Has a Fatal Flaw

Sure Snapchat’s new self-deleting video feature is great for silliness and sexy time alike, but only if it works. And on Android, a caching snafu lets you view those vids over and over. Bob Nisco explains. https://gizmodo.com/snapchat-now-automatically-sets-your-sexy-video-message-5968526 Snapchat: the latest craze sweeping iOS and Android users everywhere had a pretty substantial upgrade on December 14th,…

Rumor: Facebook Will Launch Its Own Snapchat-Style App

Facebook is apparently testing its own version of an app which resembles Snapchat, the messaging software which allows users to send “disposable” photographs to each other. All Things D claims, citing “sources familiar with the matter”, that Facebook will launch the app in the coming weeks, sometime before the end of the year. ‘Things D…