Yes, this is what I'm saying. It is two separate problems but the only one people seem interested in addressing is the one that is probably not the problem for most people.
Like it or not, people do overtrust companies like snapchat. We need to change that too.
But in the mean time, snapchat's biggest and first mistake was to leave their database an open book without even having to compromise their service or servers. The people who did this used nothing that their client application doesn't use every day, and that is not an unsolvable problem at all. It's no different a problem than every single social network already has to solve, whether their users trust them to encrypt or otherwise obscure their data once obtained or not.
Like it or not, people do overtrust companies like snapchat. We need to change that too.
But in the mean time, snapchat's biggest and first mistake was to leave their database an open book without even having to compromise their service or servers. The people who did this used nothing that their client application doesn't use every day, and that is not an unsolvable problem at all. It's no different a problem than every single social network already has to solve, whether their users trust them to encrypt or otherwise obscure their data once obtained or not.