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Ugh, seriously? DRM? Come on, it's a fun app for friends to send embarrassing pictures of themselves to each other. Obviously there's an "analog hole", but this
by cmelbye 14y ago
Ugh, seriously? DRM? Come on, it's a fun app for friends to send embarrassing pictures of themselves to each other. Obviously there's an "analog hole", but this isn't for incredibly confidential photos.
- jlgreco 14y agoIt is in the best interests of the prospective non-technical users for the ease of exploiting the analog hole to be well known and fully comprehended. Knowing that nerds can break it isn't enough, the users need to understand that their 14 year old peer with no technical skills can also break it, without breaking a sweat.
- marvin 14y agoThe point with these apps was to make sexting safer (I'm just going to say it straight out). Not completely safe. If you are sending pictures of your junk to another person, you are always exposed to the risk of getting backstabbed. Same goes if you put a person's junk in your mouth, or some similar behavior. A degree of trust is required in all relationships, but at least apps like these remove some of the incentive for abuse. And they make it impossible for someone to _inadvertently_ share your photos.
- jlgreco 14y agoThat is what I assumed the point was. If that is what people are using it for, that's fine, but I think that makes it incredibly important that they understand the technical solution to what is ultimately a social problem is imperfect. The technical imperfections are fine, so long as the users are fully informed and are not being mislead in any way. (And since sex drive is involved here, meaning there is a pretty strong incentive for laymen to go after the analog hole, it is especially important that people are made fully aware of the limitations.)