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They claim to protect against screenshotting- is that possible? I was under the impression that it was not something app developers were able to prevent.
by evan_ 11y ago
They claim to protect against screenshotting- is that possible? I was under the impression that it was not something app developers were able to prevent.
- somabc 11y agoI know that Signal (formerly Textsecure) won't let you take a screenshot of any text messages.
- mayneack 11y agoThat's android.
- will_pseudonym 11y agoExcept that it can't prevent you from taking a picture of that phone!! It's security through inconvenience!
- juandazapata 11y agoNo technology prevents a 3rd phone from taking a picture of the screen of a different phone.
- astrange 11y agoYou could try blinking different parts of the image on and off really fast.
- alexbecker 11y agoVideo then. You can't defeat the analog hole.
- joshyeager 11y agoI actually tried that for a contract project about 10 years ago. It didn't work. If you blink slower than 20 times per second it's really annoying to the user. And if you blink faster than 10 times per second it's pretty easy to take a picture with a long exposure and get the whole image. So there is no blink speed that offers even marginal protection without making the image useless.
- kazazes 11y agoWhat's the second phone doing in that scenario?
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- XaspR8d 11y agoI think the implication is that the 1st phone is the sender and the 2nd phone was the receiver, to parallel how you generally label 1st/2nd/3rd-person or -party. But I definitely had a laugh about someone holding a crazy 5-phone contraption just to copy images.
- billmalarky 11y agoIt's impossible to 100% protect against copies of media being made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoIIRC Snapchat detects when a screenshot has been made by spotting that the touch event for a finger held down is suddenly cancelled. Maybe they're doing this, then deleting the screenshot? Though, is it even possible to delete camera roll items for 3rd-party apps? Edit: Ah, they just notify, not prevent, much like Snapchat: > They cannot save it to their camera roll; and you will be notified if they ever take screenshots. Edit 2: The old trick Snapchat used doesn't work since iOS 7. Instead, it hooks a newly-added notification that a screenshot was taken.