Ghost in the Shell: The Snapchat Privacy Illusion

Last Friday, reports surfaced that tens of thousands of photos were leaked from a third-party Snapchat app. As we now know, more than 98,000 photos of users were taken from the now-defunct Snapsaved.com Snapchat's response was to blame its users and make it clear that the photos weren't leaked from their own servers, they were snatched from a third-party site that violates its terms of use. See also: Why Stealthily Saving Snapchat Photos Is So Easy This isn't the first time Snapchat's security o...