{"id":2907,"date":"2013-12-29T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T06:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2014-01-03T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T06:41:50","slug":"privacy-lenses-pointed-at-snapchat-for-making-phone-number-searches-too-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/privacy-lenses-pointed-at-snapchat-for-making-phone-number-searches-too-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy lenses pointed at Snapchat for making phone number searches too easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat is a hip and happening mobile app, and you&#8217;ve probably heard of it, though not necessarily in flattering terms if you are interested in security.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSnapchat&#8217;s primary purpose seems to be to suck you into thinking that it is safe to share risky (or risque) photos of yourself, provided that you do so via the Snapchat app, rather than via email or a regular photo-sharing service.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s because the Snapchat app gives recipients only a few seconds to look at your picture &#8211; just long enough for them to mouth the words, &#8220;My goodness, look who&#8217;s in the background&#8230;that must be&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd before they can remember whether it was Monica or Mary (or Daniel or Dave)&#8230;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8230;poof!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe photo vanishes, and can&#8217;t be downloaded or opened again.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nRead the original article <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2013\/12\/27\/privacy-lenses-pointed-at-snapchat-for-making-phone-number-searches-too-easy\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat is a hip and happening mobile app, and you&#8217;ve probably heard of it, though not necessarily in flattering terms if you are interested in security. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-KT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}