Those tokens need to be granted by the service and can also be revoked. In order for apps to work with a service’s API, typically some form of access and authorization tokens are required. It’s the same thing with Twitter and its ecosystem of third-party apps. Third-party apps can only work and communicate with the Snapchat servers by way of an API. The simple truth of the way that access to any online app service works is that there is always a control point.įor a service like Snapchat, that control point is its APIs. Snapchat’s blaming a third-party app’s violation of Snapchat’s terms of use for being the fault in the image leak is not likely to win the company much admiration. It is currently unclear which third-party app is the one to blame or if multiple apps are at fault. “Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our ToU ,” Snapchat stated in a Twitter message. For its part, Snapchat is claiming that its servers were not breached. Many of Snapchat’s users are teenagers, and there is a risk that some of the photos are indecent. Yet, apparently, in a massive attack, those images were stored and have now been released. Snapchat is a popular temporary photo-sharing app for mobile devices that offers users the promise of ephemeral image sharing of pictures that aren’t supposed to be stored. Thousands of Snapchat images that users thought were erased have now been publicly posted in an attack that is being publicly referred to as the “Snappening.”
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