Snapchat Isn’t Just for Sexting(scottblock.com)
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Snapchat Isn’t Just for Sexting
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There's the same problem that every form of DRM has: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
Check this out --> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4955639
Any animation fast enough to look like a coherent image is easily captured by an external camera as a single image.
So it's not just about sexting, but communicating by sending pictures to another smartphone? What's next, short messages and duplex voice chat?
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As somebody that tried to peddle a Snapchat competitor for Android (before Snapchat blew up), yes, it's pretty much just for sexting.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appidio.pr...
Asking this question in earnest. What other applications does one use this apart from sexting? I thought of it, even read articles that talk about how it changes how we communicate, etc. I just can't think of a use for this.
Can't they slice the image into many small parts, group them into N groups, then flash each group for 1/Nth of a second, essentially creating a looping video out of an image? A screenshot would then only take the current frame buffer, which would be only a part of the image and hopefully not useful. The image would have ghostly appearance, but it'd offer much better protection. OTOH, this sounds like an overly-complicated technical solution - after all notification only is much simpler and seem to offer a "good enough" solution.
*of course, it'd be very hard to protect anything when sending bits to someone else - someone can patch the app to get rid of the timer, dump the image to disk etc etc.