Poor security still haunts Snapchat<article>
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Snapchat’s having a rough month when it comes to safeguarding user privacy, and the hits just keep on coming.</p><p>
On Wednesday the app well-loved for its disappearing messages rolled out a new security feature designed to keep robots from spamming the service. It
seemed simple enough: a captcha system that offers up nine images and requires users to select every image that features the Snapchat ghost icon.</p><p>
By Wednesday evening, blogger and grad student Steven Hickson had
cracked the system wide open with little effort.
Hickson, who studies computer vision and robotics, wrote a basic code that enabled his computer to find every ghost in the captcha with 100 percent
accuracy, proving Snapchat’s new verification system is little more than smoke and mirrors.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2090763/poor-security-still-haunts-snapchat.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Poor security still haunts Snapchat
