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Private messaging isnt so private, say University of New Haven researchers who found Android apps transmitting and storing unencrypted images, chats, screenshots and even passwords.

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Vine, the app known for its six-second videos, introduced a way for users to privately send those videos and texts to friends. Its just one in a swath of series in the tech world shifting even more to private communication.  Indeed, the private messaging feature comes about a month after Vine officially banned pornography from its system. As Gizmodo notes, […]

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By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Snapchat, the red-hot private messaging service, said on Thursday that it knew for months about a security loophole that allowed hackers this week to harvest millions of phone numbers and announced changes to its systems. An anonymous group called Snapchat DB posted the usernames and phone numbers of […]

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