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Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats
- ilozinski 13y agoPretty neat.
- graetzer 13y agoI wouldn't trust a random website with my login info
- geetee 13y agoNot a secure connection either.
- gailees 13y agoWould you trust snapchat?
- nicholassmith 13y agoMore so than a random website not associated with it. They're going after an IPO at some stage so they need to be as legitimate as possible.
- Daviey 13y agoShow the sauce, luke?
- newobj 13y agoBased on the same premise that I would let someone secretly save my unread snail mail by giving them a key to my house.
- ilozinski 13y agoAre you implying you lock your mailbox?
- nwh 13y agoMine is certainly locked. Many places in Britain also just have the letter box in the front door, which I assume the parent is referencing.
- vitd 13y agoMy (US) house has such a slot but it has been glued shut decades ago so that nobody drops dog poop, or worse, a flaming piece of mail, into it.
- nwh 13y agoStrange country. Is never even thought of anybody doing that, and I've no reason to think that I would ever draw someone's ire who would do so.
- honzzz 13y agoAre you implying you lock your mailbox? 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.
- jlgreco 13y agoMail 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.
- TallGuyShort 13y agoWhich a lot of people do. They give a trusted entity (a neighbor) their access token (keys) to check on and maintain their property while on vacation.
- rebel 13y agoExcept that you know where your neighbor lives and are able to find him in the event something goes wrong.
- Raphmedia 13y ago... I would never, ever do that. A sibling, sure. But a neighbour? Hell no. If I haven't seen you get born, you sure are not getting unlimited access to where I live.
- benburleson 13y agoThis seems sad to me. You don't have a single neighbor you'd trust with a key to your house?
- Raphmedia 13y agoNope. 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.
- evan_ 13y agoWhy trust your family? As Biggie said- 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 http://rapgenius.com/The-notorious-big-ten-crack-commandments-lyrics http://rapgenius.com/The-notorious-big-ten-crack-commandment...
- jmduke 13y agoTo counter your Biggie lyric with a Kanye lyric: 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 http://rapgenius.com/Kanye-west-hey-mama-lyrics http://rapgenius.com/Kanye-west-hey-mama-lyrics
- dsl 13y agoThe 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.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoIf 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.
- wavesounds 13y agoThis website doesn't even pretend to have a privacy policy.
- untog 13y agoAlso the greatest trove of child porn.
- rebel 13y agoI 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.
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- landr0id 13y agoFriend 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). [1] http://expetelek.com/nolimit/ http://expetelek.com/nolimit/
- kaushalp88 13y agoWe support videos as well as pictures.
- aabalkan 13y agoI don't trust you. Please make this open source so I can host it myself. (or even better, a desktop application for other people as well). If you don't, pretty sure somebody will do.
- drobati 13y agoRead his comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6729362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6729362 He uses pysnap.
- hornbaker 13y agoYou're poking a $4B bear, so prepare for the C&D.
- ErikAugust 13y agoSnaphax, simple PHP class that connects and uses the Snapchat API - https://github.com/tlack/snaphax https://github.com/tlack/snaphax Would assume snpcht.com uses it.
- kaushalp88 13y agoActually we use this: https://github.com/martinp/pysnap https://github.com/martinp/pysnap
- ErikAugust 13y agoThanks - It's just the tokens and keys contained that really matter, I guess.
- ENGNR 13y agoExtremely 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)
- VladRussian2 13y agoNSA 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.
- aryastark 13y ago"Is the NSA storing nude pictures of kids? Are your children in danger? More at 11." We may get meaningful regulation after all.
- gojomo 13y agoCurious: 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.)