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it has all the benefits of social media (instant, low-friction communication) and none of the privacy concerns of faceboob, g+, etc.

unless of course we discover one day that snapchat messages all live on in some secret db ...

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Considering that all un-viewed Snapchat's have to be stored, there's no need for a secret db. I've heard a rumor that snaps are stored in memecache and they are running in to scaling pains with the amount of un-viewed pictures stored in memory.

I wonder if they drop unread pictures after a certain length of time? it would seem sensible and fit with the ephemeral nature of the mesdages

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't a whole shit ton of Snapchat users passwords and the like stolen in 2013/2014?

usernames & pws have to be stored of course... but I though the whole appeal of snapchat was that messages would self-destruct? i.e. communication between users is not permanent? (except in the brains of the sender and recipient, i.e. just like human oral communication)

well assuming no wiretapping ;)

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