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May 10, 2013 01:36 am GMT
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Actually, Snapchat Photos Are Just As Deleted As Any Other File You Trash
Though Snapchat has been picked on, picked apart, and blown up in the media, the technical aspects of the service are still somewhat mysterious to the average user. A new research report from a company called Decipher Forensics is looking to shed a little light on how the service "deletes" photos you send through Snapchat. According to Decipher, Snapchat photos are renamed with a .jpgnomedia extension to hide that photo from your phone, under /data/data/com.snapchat.android. The computer forensics company claims that they can retrieve these photos both before and after they've expired within the app.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/0gcANcyfrU0/
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