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Comment by jkelsey | Hacker News Reader

Still too early to make those types of statements. I think it mostly depends on how much the media plays this up.

Not to mention I don't think most of snapchats target audience even cares about this issue. My 20 year old sister certainly doesn't.

I'd be surprised if most of them are even aware of it, let alone care about it.

It's on the front page (below the fold) of Buzzfeed. I think it's gonna be a big deal. Privacy was a key selling point.

we are kind of the media.. and reddit is too.. I also believe that they made a fatal error by not selling everything for $3bn then jumping aboard. To not have anything to do with the "soon to come security issues". I mean they could have mentioned it and downplay it as they did just recently. I don't think that the new owner would take security more serious than them.

For us it was really really good that he rejected the offer! Because otherwise we would see the trade market crash $3bn, guess who would have to pay loss.. we..

well, if he saw that coming, which I doubt, he would be a hero.

>I don't think that the new owner would take security more serious than them.

I don't know about that. Their dismissal was (at least framed as) "well that's a lot of data, so it's not going to happen!"

Actual excerpt from their blog, on the 27th: "Theoretically, if someone were able to upload a huge set of phone numbers, like every number in an area code, or every possible number in the U.S., they could create a database of the results and match usernames to phone numbers that way."

This is kind of a joke.

> Because otherwise we would see the trade market crash $3bn A sale of SC hurts all other companies in the market? Hard to understand this posit.

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