Iphone new text app

Quip is an iPhone application that provides simple “private” photo sharing without MMS. A flaw in the service was posted to Reddit a day ago by FlamingZebra90:

Here’s the deal. As stated in the title, QuipText is a service that lets iPhone users send picture messages to others over the internet. The service works by saving the image as a webpage on their server with its own unique URL and then texting the person in question the url. The only problem? They’re only using 5 alphanumeric, noncase-sensitive characters for the URL, meaning it can be brute forced in a few seconds.

So basically, the way in which photos are accessed is similar to services like TwitPic, with the difference being that users of Quip had the expectation of privacy for their photo sharing. Before long, tech-savvy folk had whipped up automatic scripts for harvesting these private photographs, and the story has erupted in the past day as thousands of private photographs have been released to the Internet.