'The Snappening': Hacked Snapchat users' leaked nude photos may include child porn Seems like a big deal being made over this. It's just a bunch of pics and some might be nude. So what? They say there's hundreds of thousands of pics, but only a very small portion of the stolen pics are likely to be nudes or anything embarrassing.
"The Snappening," a wordplay on the recent celebrity hacking scandal, hit Reddit, 4chan and other sites over the weekend with private images allegedly taken from Snapchat. The messaging app has been popular for allowing people to share pictures ("snaps") and videos that are deleted 10 seconds or less after being viewed, but some users are finding the deletion wasn't permanent.
Yeah, people figure out ways around the deletion mechanism. So fucking what?
The much larger collection of "Snappening" photos also likely includes a large amount of child pornography, as Snapchat says half of its users are between the ages of 13 and 17.
Well that might be what Snapchat thinks, but it's likely that a fair number of their users are younger than 13 despite Snapchat's policy that users must be over 13. No doubt that Snapchat realizes that young users often lie about their age. But again, so what?
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