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> Nothing instills confidence in cryptographic code like the constants "bananas" and "seems legit...".

And a class called "SlightySecurePreferences". One gets the feeling that the programmer responsible knew exactly what he was doing, but had been told to do it anyways.



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Well, prior - there were apps you could download that would save Snapchat images that would work on non-root devices. At least by enabling this encryption that's now only available to the relatively small amount of root users out there.


Or anyone who can use adb backup. If you view the physical possessor of a device as your adversary, you're bound to lose.




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