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> Does anyone else remember when it was possible to extract snapchat messages that haven't been viewed yet because they had some ridiculously easy to find encryption key, hardcoded in the app?

In ~2016 on Android, incoming messages that haven't been read yet weren't encrypted at all. You could just look at the app's SQLite database and find the message contents somewhere in the message table. The sending party would never known you had read it.




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