Periscope is an app that lets you live stream just about anything. In addition, you can add text messages or emoticons to the video being streamed. All you have to do is to press a button to inform your friends that you are about to start broadcasting. In case of Twitter, you tweet asking your followers to join the broadcast. Then you start broadcasting using the built in camera in phone while adding emoticons etc to the feed. Whatever is captured by the rear camera is broadcasted live (with a few minutes delay perhaps) to your followers.
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Twitter's Meerkat-strangling live streaming app Periscope has had its first privacy SNAFU, leaking the titles (but not the content) of videos meant for private circulation only.
Periscope allows users to stream live video into their Twitter feeds. The app debuted mere days after a very similar app, Meerkat, became the Bong! crowd's latest darling.
The flaw in Twitter's app means audio and video of a private broadcast will remain private: only the title leaks. While most users will think of it as an annoyance more than a catastrophe, there will still be some Bobs wondering if the mere title Private Striptease by Alice for Bob might tip off Eve that there's something to ask about..
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Periscope smeared by streaming security SNAFU.
31 Mar 2015 at 05:31, Richard ChirgwinLive vid titles leak from Twitter's new app for the Bong! crowd
http://regmedia.co.uk/2015/03/31/periscope_and_meerkat.jpg?x=648&y=429&crop=1Twitter's Meerkat-strangling live streaming app Periscope has had its first privacy SNAFU, leaking the titles (but not the content) of videos meant for private circulation only.
Periscope allows users to stream live video into their Twitter feeds. The app debuted mere days after a very similar app, Meerkat, became the Bong! crowd's latest darling.
The flaw in Twitter's app means audio and video of a private broadcast will remain private: only the title leaks. While most users will think of it as an annoyance more than a catastrophe, there will still be some Bobs wondering if the mere title Private Striptease by Alice for Bob might tip off Eve that there's something to ask about..
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