Snapchat is now addressing, after a fashion, the clumsy coding in the Find Friends feature that let angry hackers scrape and post private information about 4.6 million Snapchat app users earlier this week. We will be releasing an updated version of the Snapchat application that will allow Snapchatters to opt out of appearing in Find Friends after they have verified their phone number, the company said in a blog posting entitled Find Friends Abuse yesterday (Jan. 2). Nor was there an actual fix for the Find Friends feature, similar versions of which are used by Facebook, Twitter and other online services without corresponding problems — or any form of Were sorry.
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