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Stay away from The Snappening: Child porn in Snapchat leaks

10/14/2014

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Photo courtesy Twitter account @SnappeningLeaks

In this Digital Age, you're naive if you never thought this could happen.

There is no privacy on the Internet, despite what teens may think. Last month, a trend started with iCloud leaked nude photos of celebrities called "The Fappening" (a combination of the M. Night Shyamalan film titled ‘The Happening’ with the word fapping – Internet slang for masturbation.)  And just this week, the same 4Chan hackers are thought to be behind the release of nearly 200,000 images and videos from the photo messaging app Snapchat, a messaging service that claims that the photos sent on it “disappear” 10 seconds after the person receiving the picture opens it.

We have warned parents and educators about Snapchat for several years now. Snapchat provides a false sense of protection for teens that their photos will disappear, but almost immediately after the app's release, teens found a workaround to save the disappearing photos through several hacks, including another app, called SnapSave, which can save all the pictures and videos sent from Snapchat to the phone’s camera roll.

Last Friday, according to the news source RT.com, it was this third-party app, SnapSave and its servers that were hacked and pornographic content was definitely among the leaked material, some of it underaged.

Not great news for teens who thought they had a foolproof workaround to engage in Sexting.

The hackers also claimed that the images had been indexed  by username, which you can see in the photo above.

Already, in Internet forums, many people are scrambling to try and find out who these usernames belong to and to view the nude photos.

HOWEVER, depending on national law and age of consent, anyone who  downloads underage nude content in The Snappening could be charged for violating child pornography laws.

So here are the essential talking points for your kids over this issue:

1. Do NOT Sext. Ever. Ever. Ever. It will come back to haunt you. Tell them to read Jennifer Lawrence's thoughts on this violation, after having her Sexting photos hacked. Sexting photos will always be currency to the public. And this hacked and leaked photo trend is not going away.

2. If your teen suspects he or she might have Sexting photos hacked from the The Snappening, do not try to access any photos and download them. As crazy as it sounds, the laws prohibit downloading underaged nude photos...even if your teen was the one who took the photo!

3. On that common sense note, if you have a discussion with your teen over this issue, be upfront and hard line about it. Tell him or her not to even go looking for underage nude photos out of curiosity. EVER. The FBI is currently investigating the fall out from The Snappening and can even detect  computers that are accessing child porn in real time.

Even looking at or possessing these photos or videos on your computer or cell phone is a very serious crime that can carry a minimum of five years in prison in the case of a Federal Child Pornography case.


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