Snapchat, the app that became popular late last year has been getting some attention in the media the past few days. The app is used to send pictures to a certain person or people for a select amount of time. Once the receiver looks at the picture for the allotted time, it is then deleted; or so they say!
A forensics examiner from Utah has discovered a way to pull Snapchat photos from an Android by downloading data from the phone and removing a ".NoMedia" file extension. Wait, they only said Androids so does that mean us iPhone users are in the clear?! For now we are, apparently this guy is currently working on a way to get into the iPhone data.
The guy who figured this out posted his findings online and a local TV station showed a video on how to do it.
I bet Android users everywhere are trying to think of the inappropriate snaps they may have sent and are hoping they never get used against them. If necessary, snaps can be pulled from a phone and used in a court case as evidence!
As of now the creators of Snapchat have been keeping quiet. No comments have been made about the recent findings that the pictures don't actually disappear, like they claim they do! It will be interesting what they have to say about this one.
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