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11 pointsShaneCurran17 comments

I don't see how this could possibly work. I'm root on my machine, how could a software that some other people use can prevent me to do whatever I want with data that my machine receives? In the worst case, I can screenshot anything that appear on my screen. The app claim to be screenshot-proof. I call bullshit.

Yeah this can't work for the same myriad reasons DRM can be circumvented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Meth...

Snapchat, but it lets you publish your pictures? Also, it stole the name of a popular Cydia tweak for Snapchat. [0] Also, they left what seems like a fake review of their own product on Google Play. [1]

[0]: http://www.cokepokes.com/cydia/depiction/phantom.html

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.phantom&re...

How can you prevent me to take a photo of my screen?

Hacker News really needs some feature to down-vote ... ;-)

You can, once you reach a certain karma threshold.

All this is unofficial, but based on my own observations:

You can never down-vote a submission. When you have enough karma you can:

* Down-vote comments

* Flag comments

* Flag submissions

Flags on submissions affect their ranking in a manner similar to down-voting, except that enough flags can result in a submission being deleted entirely.

I'd say that you might not have enough karma to have access to all the features.

Are you suggesting that with enough karma one can down-vote a submission? I certainly don't have enough karma yet.

Only Paul Graham knows.

Or any of the others who work on the code. However, even jacquesm[0] - third on the leader board[1] - says that to the best of his knowledge one cannot downvote articles:

    http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#downvotearticle

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

There are no downvotes on stories, unless you consider flagging a kind of story downvote. That's a legitimate way to look at it, since it answers the complaint upthread [1]: if you think that a story is not appropriate for HN, that's what flagging is for.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8124546

Flags never delete a submission entirely. We don't delete submissions unless users ask us to (and have a good reason). Everything else remains visible with 'showdead' turned on in your profile.

Oh, how about "no."

Screenshot?

Yea. On the Play Store, there is litterelly a screenshot of the app displaying a picture, above the text presentation which claim that the app protect against screenshots… This is so lame.

maybe you want to reconsider lying in the description?

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