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On Christmas Eve, that same group publicly documented our API, making it easier for individuals to abuse our service and violate our Terms of Use.

Security through obscurity? Great way of protecting your users.

It's pathetic that they believe that others haven't already worked out their protocol and were using it.

Funny how they have had to quickly backtrack from this blog post:

http://blog.snapchat.com/post/71353347590/finding-friends-wi...

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