Puffchat

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Name	Puffchat
Ontology	Electronic File Formats E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums Puffchat

Puffchat is a Snapchat competitor, claiming to offer secure chatting with messages that self-destruct after they are read. Unfortunately, somebody figured out that its API wasn't really very secure, and its messages didn't really self-destruct. The founder of the service reacted by going berzerk and making legal threats against anybody who mentioned these flaws on the Web or Twitter, demanding that all such mentions be taken down immediately. Of course, this led to the information being disseminated much more widely, per the Streisand Effect.

Links

• Puffchat Apple app store page (dead link, not in Wayback Machine)
• Puffchat blog (Archived snapshot from March 27, 2014)
• Puff Puff… Pass. (Original announcement of the discovery that Puffchat is insecure)
  • Puffchat Fail (Mirror of the above post on another blog)
• Snapchat competitor Puffchat is incredibly insecure, founder threatens legal action (Article from The Unofficial Apple Weblog)