The problem with this service (or others like it) is the next eventual step is making your private snaps you've saved with the service public.
Snapchat itself faces the same problem. They are sitting the greatest trove of amateur porn ever, and eventually they need to figure out how to make money.
If you know everyone's social graph and you use sneaky ways of identifying people even when they are using different computers or using the private/incognito mode of browsers (which is definitely technologically possible) then perhaps it would be possible to serve up "private" erotic photographs only to a subset of users who are maximally disconnected from the people in the photographs.
I wonder how long you could get away with pulling off something like that if you were as sneaky as possible.
Number 3: never trust nobody
Your moms'll set that ass up, properly gassed up
Hoodied and masked up, shit, for that fast buck
She be laying in the bushes to light that ass up
See you're, unbreakable, unmistakable /
Highly capable, lady that's makin loot /
A livin legend too, just look at what heaven do /
Send us an angel, and I thank you
Nope. I can't even trust them not to burn their apartment down. There is no way I would let them have access to mine. I don't even know most of them. That being said, I don't live somewhere where having a relation with your neighbours is common.
... it was a figure of speech. I have actually never seen anyone get born. I was talking about the sibling-like relationship you can get with people that are close to you.
Sure, if one of my close friend is also my neighbour, I would let him take care of my house. But it would be on the basis of him being my friend, not my neighbour.
Sigh... I really wish I didn't have to restrict my self entirely to the use of phrases like "trusted entity" to avoid the excruciating minutia of debates like this.
Would that be surprising to you? I assume you might be an American - I was really surprised when I visited the US and noticed that most people use unlocked boxes located outside of their houses to get their mail. Where I live people either lock their mailboxes or they get mail through a slot in their locked door - nobody leaves their mail accessible.
Mail slots are typically used in America in all row-homes (aka, very nearly all houses in towns or cities). Apartment buildings almost always have locked mailboxes, unless you are really scraping the bottom or your apartment is in a converted row-home (my old apartment had a single mail slot on the front door, the 3 different apartments just sorted each others mail). Private developments often have locked mailboxes outdoors by the entry gate.
Unlocked mailboxes outside the house really only exist in rural areas or regular suburbs (to be fair, these sort of homes probably make up a plurality of homes in America).
The bigger problem is what happens with packages. Unless you live in an apartment building with a staffed leasing/mail office, chances are your packages get left by the door (usually in plain site), or you need to be home to sign for them.
Well, in the US it's a substantial federal offense to steal mail or to read someone else's mail (coughunlessyouarethegovernmentcough), so that acts as a big deterrent, I think.
I'm not sure, but I'd assume that if you go around stealing packages, you're probably not doing it just because. You're doing it systematically for financial gain. In which case you have to be a repeat offender for it to make sense. In which case it's easier to track down. This happened near me last year:
I wouldn't trust a service like this, although I know many people will (or just won't think about that aspect). The main point I'm seeing from this is that it devalues the Snapchat service immensely. I know there are other services offering the same functionality as well. I'm sure it will be impossible for Snapchat to keep them out, and it could destroy Snapchat as they begin to catch on. I'm now less likely to send snaps as I know they can more easily be recorded forever.
Friend of mine made a website like this that supports videos and pictures [1]. It's hard to trust something like that, but if you want you could always create your own implementation (see the About screen).
Curious: if you have unviewed snaps, backup your iPhone, view the snaps, then restore from backup - can you view again? (Assume 'airplane mode' off-network for any of the steps where it might help.)
Extremely unethical, the whole point of someone sending you a snapchat is that they don't want you to be able to save it (let alone save it on a third party server)
NSA saves it anyway :). I mean once your unencrypted bits hit the wire/waves, all these statements about who can(not) read/see/save/etc.. are just fog.
Snapchat itself faces the same problem. They are sitting the greatest trove of amateur porn ever, and eventually they need to figure out how to make money.