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It's not impossible or stupid. His crypto proposal is to protect you from (or at least limit) the impact of any malicious action by Snapchat or anyone they may
by nly 13y ago
It's not impossible or stupid. His crypto proposal is to protect you from (or at least limit) the impact of any malicious action by Snapchat or anyone they may turn images over to (the police for example). I'm sure that isn't the biggest concern for Snapchat users, but it's still a worthwhile precaution.
Of course, for a company valued at billions (hah!), implementing anything that can get them in to hot water with the authorities, or breaks the user experience, isn't going to happen just before or after an IPO or buyout.
- shawabawa3 13y ago> is crypto proposal is to protect you from (or at least limit) the impact of any malicious action by Snapchat but...his proposal involves trusting snapchat... so it's completely useless. Even if they did implement all of it, at any point they could update a backdoor into it and you would have no way of knowing. It's essentially the same problem as javascript crypto[1] [1] http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
- riquito 13y agoNot really, his crypto propsal doesn't protect you from any malicious action by Snapchat, and thus they is pretty much useless. You either trust Snapchat or don't. Having Snapchat create for you private keys and thinking that now your data is more private is naive
- nly 13y agoRight, but everything clientside can be audited. Especially on Android where decompiling apps practically gives you source code.