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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Snapchat's new "security" feature holds up about as
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Thu Jan 23 13:13:35 2014
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Snapchat's new "security" feature holds up about as long as a double cheeseburger
http://j.mp/1aME2Xu (Steve's Computer Vision Blog)
"With very little effort, my code was able to "find the ghost" in the
above example with 100% accuracy. I'm not saying it is perfect, far
from it. I'm just saying that if it takes someone less than an hour to
train a computer to break an example of your human verification
system, you are doing something wrong. There are a ton of ways to do
this using computer vision, all of them quick and effiective. It's a
numbers game with computers and Snapchat's verification system is
losing."
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The problem is that Snapchat is demonstrating that they don't really care about
security at all. They're hardly even going through the motions.
--Lauren--
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