Why I’m Not Worried That It’s Possible To Undelete Snapchat
Photos  As my Forbes colleague Kashmir Hill pointed out last
week, forensics examiner Richard Hickman blogged that he
had successfully restored dozens of  ”deleted” Snapchat photos
from Android phones.  I don’t disagree with Hill’s observation
that this news “may make some Snapchat users think twice before
sending a photo that they think is going to quickly disappear,”
but I also don’t think people should necessarily stop using
Snapchat or force their kids to abandon the popular photo
sharing app just because we now know that it’s possible to
restore photos.  Why it may not matter  Does it really matter
that Snapchat photos can be restored?  To begin with, there’s
never been an iron-clad guarantee that what you share on
Snapchat can’t be copied and distributed. While
Hickman’s revelation may be new, it’s long been known that there
are ways to capture screenshots of Snapchat photos either by
using the operating system’s built-in screen capture or by t