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A comment on Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib because they asked?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib beca... by eli on Monday July 22, 2013 @01:39PM (#6085209)
A private (that is, not published) API Key sure sounds like a protection measure to me.
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Re:Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib beca... by kenbellows on Monday July 22, 2013 @02:21PM (#6085505)
It doesn't sound like the published API key is the problem here. They can revoke the key, and other users of Snaphax can put their own in the code. I think the larger issue is the reverse engineering of their protocol.
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Re:Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib beca... by rhizome on Monday July 22, 2013 @02:06PM (#6085382)
So they can revoke the key.
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