Report: Snapchat
logins could work for other apps in the future
You might be seeing the words "Log in with Snapchat" in
non-Snapchat apps in the near future.
According to TechCrunch,
the company is planning to launch its first full-fledged developer platform
called Snapkit, which will allow third-party developers to give users the
option to log into their apps with Snapchat credentials. In addition, the kit
will give developers a way to host Snapchat's camera instead of having to
create one that's not quite as powerful. If they choose, they can also let people use their Bitmoji avatars in
their apps.
As the publication noted, the developer kit could help
Snapchat get out of a rut, gain new
followers or win back those it lost to Instagram Stories.
People might choose their Snapchat login over their Facebook login if they have a choice, especially those
conscious of their privacy and security. The ephemeral app asks for fewer
information than Facebook does, which means any future breach wouldn't leak too
much personal data.
Unfortunately, it's still unclear which apps will
offer the login first, and it might depend on which companies Snapchat is able
to convince. An app that offers Facebook login already gives billions of people
a viable point of entry without having to sign up — Snapchat has much fewer
users in comparison.
Satellite Images
Show North Korea Scrubbed Nuclear Test Site Before Unilaterally Destroying It
President Trump is still hoping he can meet with Kim
Jong Un and convince him to give up his nukes. But new satellite imagery of
North Korea’s nuclear test site suggests that the North’s may not be game for
the “complete, verifiable and irreversible” dismantling of
their nuclear program Washington has called for.
North Korea destroyed its Punggye-ri nuclear test site
on Friday in front of an audience of reporters after unilaterally offering to
destroy the site in mid-May. North Korean state media hailed the move as “an
important process for global nuclear disarmament” carried out with “high-level
transparency,” and President Trump praised it as “a
very smart and gracious gesture.” But some experts suspect the site may have been sanitized by the North
Koreans before reporters arrived.
Well before the dismantlement ceremony, satellite
imagery of the south entrance obtained by the Middlebury Institute for
International Studies show activity at the site as the North began to remove
guard structures. The photo shows a heavy truck at the entrance to the south
tunnel at the site.
The imagery was captured on May 7, a day before
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited
North Korea for a second time and five days before North Korean officials
officially announced a schedule for the destruction of the site. Video of
the south tunnel entrance recorded
by Sky News’ Tom Cheshire on the day the test site was dismantled also shows
parts of the tunnel’s walls carved out where cables carrying data from the test
chamber would be. As early as May 2, U.S. intelligence officials told CBS News
that the North had begun to remove cables from
the site.
It’s not clear what, if anything, the truck seen at
the tunnel entrance was carrying but Jeffrey Lewis, director of Middlebury’s
East Asia Nonproliferation Program, suspects that the activity shown in
satellite imagery depicted the North removing material from the test site.
“The only reason to sanitize the site is if you are
planning on protecting national security information,” Lewis told The Daily
Beast. “The North Koreans are still treating information about their nuclear
weapons program as sensitive—that suggests North Korea is unlikely to hand over
actual nuclear weapons.”
On Friday, the White House National Security Council’s
top East Asia staffer Matthew Pottinger told surrogates in an off-the-record briefing that
was independently described to The Daily Beast that “What you didn't know is
that Secretary Pompeo and the South Korean government were both promised that
experts would be invited to verify today's demolition and to do some advance
work there.”
Pottinger referred to the North’s failure to make good on the apparent offer he
described as a broken promise, concluding that “we will not have forensic evidence that much was
accomplished.”
On May 15, shortly after North Korea announced a
schedule for the dismantling of Punggye-ri, State Department spokeswoman
Heather Nauert told reporters: “Hopefully we’ll be in the position to be able
to do that, but again, I don’t want to get
ahead of that process.”
The soil, equipment, and even the air around nuclear
test sites can yield valuable information about the weapons detonated within
them. Instrumentation at a test site can offer insights into how advanced a
nuclear program is. Following previous North Korean nuclear tests, the U.S. Air
Force flew WC-135 Constant Phoenix aircraft—planes equipped with sensors to
collect atmospheric samples and garner clues about the fuel used in a nuclear
detonation—outside of North Korean airspace.
Having access to a test site itself could provide even
more information about the North’s nuclear weapons but the U.S. didn’t get the chance—the North never invited
American officials or technical experts to Punggye-ri. Tom Cheshire of Sky News
wrote that North Korean officials even confiscated a radiation dosimeter he
brought with him to the country in order to monitor potentially unsafe levels
of radiation exposure.
Pompeo welcomed the offer
to destroy Punggye-ri as “good news” and “one step along the way” when North
Korea first announced it. But sanitization of the Punggye-ri test site falls
far short of Pompeo’s high bar for of "complete, verifiable, irreversible
denuclearization,” and puts into doubt the North’s willingness to accept the
kinds of verification measures often included in arms-control agreements.
North Korea had carried out half a dozen nuclear tests
at its Punggye-ri site with the first test taking place in 2006. It carried out
a final test in September 2017 of what many believe was a thermonuclear weapon.
In late April, months after the successful demonstration of a North Korean
intercontinental ballistic missile, Kim Jong Un announced that “We
no longer need any nuclear tests” and that Punggye-ri has "completed its
mission."
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