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I wish they'd use the leaked database to get my phone number and then have pugs call me.

I subscribed my wife to it, then discovered she doesn't like pugs. Consider this a feature request for "doodles or corgis maybe".

So could we take the list of leaked usernames and subscribe everyone to pugs? Or does it confirm.

Thanks for signing up for Pug-o-matic! You will now receive fun daily pictures of PUGS!

A snapchat user can have "Who can send me snaps..." set to "My Friends" (this is the default option), and then they have to accept a friend request from the pug before the snaps go through.

Who has the copyright for these images?

<sarcasm> OP just wants to harvest Snapchat usernames to harvest mobile phone numbers. </sarcasm>

That should possibly be <cynicism> rather than sarcasm.

I think it's not a valid concern though... The maker of this app would gain no new information. If the mobile numbers are already leaked, then that information is already out there.

At the most the app maker would be able filter down to the list of snapchat ids which also use hackernews... and this would be less and less accurate as the app spreads and is reposted on other social networks.

That was the sarcasm, I think. That there's no need to harvest usernames and phone numbers anymore.

So if your username is the same on both, there's no downside, and pug upside!

There is something going on with pugs. Since getting one we've discovered some sort of cult following - in which we've become victim. For instance, one night I couldn't help myself so I hacked up a quick app - pugrodeo.com for posting pug photos.

I started to build something similar myself. Just send a snap to "kittenbot", and you'll get a random kitten everytime you send a snap to it.

before i sign friends up for this, i need to know: is there an unsubscribe option?

Uh you have to accept whatever account it's coming from from your phone (e.g. the friend you send it to) before they actually receive them.

OP here. At the moment, there isn't such an option built in, but removing the friend "pugomatic" on Snapchat directly will do the job.

If anyone has any concerns along these lines, or any other comments, feel free to drop me an email at tim@pug-o-matic.me.

Signed up for this. Fantastic idea.

Why snapchat?

Probably the closest you come to an image-based push notification.

OP here - it's just an idea that I had at work following GibSec's full disclosure [1] of Snapchat's (ostensibly) private API.

Pugs are a favourite and long-running meme, and Snapchat is very much a part of current internet culture, so combining the two in a new way seemed like an interesting thing to do.

[1] http://gibsonsec.org/snapchat/fulldisclosure/

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