Love how they say "illegal". Snapchat has no right to tell you what you can and cannot take screenshots off. Your phone your choice, they cannot control what you take photos of.
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iOS 7 Disables Screenshot Interruptions, Allows Users to Secretly Take Snapchat Screenshots
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Apple needs to forbid any apps from implementing any sort of screenshot detection. I'm thinking beyond Snapchat apps but the principle is the same.
An application shouldn't know what you are doing with your device. It's a privacy issue.
An application shouldn't know what you are doing with your device. It's a privacy issue.
Well, isn't this the point a developer preview, so devs can catch bug like this to fix their app before the final/GM come out? 
I don't use this app, but the idea behind it is not bad!
I don't use this app, but the idea behind it is not bad!
So wait.. I've used snap chat before and I think it's entirely stupid and I no longer have the app, but I'm confused on something. The way the app works is when somebody sends you a photo, you have 10 seconds to look at it. You must keep your finger on the screen to view the photo. If you take your finger off, it goes away, but you can put your finger back on and the picture comes back. I have done this before. Is it telling the other user I took a screen shot then? If this truly is the way the app knows you took a screen shot then taking your finger off the screen and putting it back on should be registered as a screen shot, right? The way it's explained in the article is horribly worded and confusing.
or you can remotely steal photos and call it a bug if another snowden comes around
Reading skills...
What's with all the 'I don't understand...' and ' it's telling people I took a screenshot?". It quite clearly states in the article that with iOS 7 you can take a screenshot without the sender of the photo knowing, whereas previously you couldn't. That's it. Never used Snapchat, quickly skimmed the article and even I got that.
What's with all the 'I don't understand...' and ' it's telling people I took a screenshot?". It quite clearly states in the article that with iOS 7 you can take a screenshot without the sender of the photo knowing, whereas previously you couldn't. That's it. Never used Snapchat, quickly skimmed the article and even I got that.
Snapchat is rarely used for nude photos. I'm sure that there are people that do it but my friends and I mostly use it just as text messaging. Here I am, this is what Im doing, this is what Im having for lunch, this is what Im reading etc. None of that is worthy a screenshot, especially a secretive one.
None of that is worthy of taking a photo and sending across the internet, but who am I to judge
I have always be able to take a photo of a snap chat regardless, it Just told the person. Anyway there is a jailbreak tool that can give you a ton of control of snapchat anyway.
Wait a second, was it ever a good idea to trust such photos to some hackable app?
I'm still trying to grok Snapchat. Does it go like this:
"Hey look! It's an app that says nobody can save the photos!
All right, I'll just whip this out, make sure the flash is on...SNAP...whoa, got it all in the frame, that little lens is wide! ok now now launch Snapchat and send this whopper to that chick in marketing. Heh, she'll never be able to prove anything!
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I'm still trying to figure out how one can be reading anything if he is sending out texts announcing to everyone that he's reading.
Even taking a dump, it would be difficult to actually tap out the text to a message while in the act of dumping. More likely the text is composed before the dump takes place. It's all one great lie.
I'm still trying to grok Snapchat. Does it go like this:
"Hey look! It's an app that says nobody can save the photos!
All right, I'll just whip this out, make sure the flash is on...SNAP...whoa, got it all in the frame, that little lens is wide! ok now now launch Snapchat and send this whopper to that chick in marketing. Heh, she'll never be able to prove anything!
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None of that is worthy of taking a photo and sending across the internet, but who am I to judge
I'm still trying to figure out how one can be reading anything if he is sending out texts announcing to everyone that he's reading.
Even taking a dump, it would be difficult to actually tap out the text to a message while in the act of dumping. More likely the text is composed before the dump takes place. It's all one great lie.
So basically you need a separate phone/camera to take the 'screenshot'. The finger on the screen will just prove the shot is real. Kids will find a way around this stuff
What astounds me more is people expecting any kind of privacy on images they themselves are sharing online.
There's always ways to take snapshots undetected. Simply taking a photo of the screen with another camera. And also, things can never be unseen Are they expecting people to have their brains wiped?
If you don't trust someone not to make copies of confidential photos, don't send them confidential photos
There's always ways to take snapshots undetected. Simply taking a photo of the screen with another camera. And also, things can never be unseen
Are they expecting people to have their brains wiped?If you don't trust someone not to make copies of confidential photos, don't send them confidential photos
This is why we have betas/previews! Besides, it sounds like a pretty poor method of detection, so it's not surprising that it's broken; if there isn't an API to do something, and you use a workaround to do it anyway, then it shouldn't be surprising if it breaks in future! I'm not unsympathetic, but it's just the way of things
You got this so wrong, you couldn't be any wronger.
Snapchat tries to let you send pictures from your device to other devices that can be viewed, but that cannot be captured by taking a screenshot and then send on. A sends a photo to B and allows them to see it, but wants to prevent B from sending it on to the world.
In iOS 6, Snapchat detects when the user takes a screen shot and hides the photo just before the screen shot is taken. In iOS 7, this doesn't work, so if A sends a photo to B using Snapchat, and B is using iOS 7, then B can send that photo on to everyone in the world.
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They were not sharing them online. They were sharing them with one specific other user. Only that user could see the photo.
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I think this subject is too complicated for some people :-(
So the CIA wants to write an app that allows them to send messages to their agents, allowing their agents to read the message but not record it anywhere. Like "this message will destroy itself in five seconds". An email app wants to be able to send messages marked as "confidential" which the receiver can read, but not copy.
I understand that, I just think any sharing app should be considered a security risk from the start. Doesn't mean you shouldn't use it, just that you should be mindful of what you use it for.
Whether you're sharing your content in a private group/app or not, you are still uploading your content to the cloud. To a free service that has no obligations to protect your content. If it's that sensitive, just don't do that. Use a paid service that has an obligation to you (and even then be aware they might make a mistake).
And that's not even taking the end user into account yet, if you don't trust someone not to share your pic, don't send it to them. There is always a way around restrictions on sharing. Nobody is surprised when a movie shows up online before it's in the cinema. What makes this different?
I don't think Apple can be blamed for this by the way, I doubt it says anywhere in the SDK documentation that screenshots will always break touch inputs forever more. It's just an assumption on snapchat's part that this would always be the case.
While its not as risqué, the first thing that came to my mind is as follows:
When detailing to a friend (read: my mom) how to do something on my phone, I try to take a screenshot while touching the settings option that I want so that the picture shows it highlighted in blue. It's a pretty difficult shot to time; it sounds like this might make it easier.
Oh, but yes, it's all about nudie pics
When detailing to a friend (read: my mom) how to do something on my phone, I try to take a screenshot while touching the settings option that I want so that the picture shows it highlighted in blue. It's a pretty difficult shot to time; it sounds like this might make it easier.
Oh, but yes, it's all about nudie pics
Blocking stuff like that is silly. Go to IMDB.com and try to get a picture of any of their actor images. Sure, on an iOS device, you can do a screen shot, and on a Mac, you can use grab, but what the hell is the sin in grabbing a shot of a favorite actor? Their images are all copyrighted and protected from any commercial use. So what if someone wants a gorgeous picture of an actor. Is it really that important to be so childish?
Whatever... There are ways around it, but it's just silly... Stop that, it's silly...
Whatever... There are ways around it, but it's just silly... Stop that, it's silly...