The 'prenup' app could spell the end of revenge porn
Making a sex tape with your partner can spice things up in the bedroom – but it may also put you at risk of being a victim of revenge porn.
However, a new app promises to protect you from the humiliation by acting as the 'prenup' for your homemade clips.
Called Rumuki, the app pairs up the couple's smartphones as keys that can only be used to unlock the explicit videos if both people involved give their permission.
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A new app promises to protect you from the humiliation by acting as the 'prenup' for your homemade clips. Called Rumuki, the app pairs up the couple's smartphones as keys that can only be used to unlock the explicit videos if both people involved give their permission
HOW DOES IT WORK? Both individuals will need to download the app and sync up with each other's accounts. Then just use one of the smartphones, with the app open, to record the sex tape, which is encrypted and saved on both devices. Users are unable to replay the video without their partner's permission, which can only be given for a one-time playback and expires within a week.
Revenge porn is when someone, usually an ex-lover, shares explicit images or videos of someone on the internet without permission.
The idea of these acts are to cause the victim distress or embarrassment, which has led officials to make it illegal in 34 out of the 50 US states.
But Rumuki is stepping in to save people from having their sex tapes used against them.
Both individuals will need to download the app and sync up with each other's accounts, reports Vocativ.
Using just one of the apps, users are then able to record their sex tape, which is encrypted and saved on both of the smartphones.
Rumuki notes that the recordings 'are never sent across the internet' and are never touched by their servers.
'Because your videos are never sent across the internet, it is impossible for third party attackers to gain access to your videos without local access to the network your devices are on (that includes us),' Rumuki states on their website.
Both individuals will need to download the app and sync up with each other's accounts. Using just one of the apps, users are then able to record their sex tape, which is encrypted and saved on both of the smartphones.
And even if your smartphones is stole, thieves will not be able to access the app because it also needs a password to login.
Individuals can also stay anonymous when using the app, as they are not required to provide an email or log in with a social media account.
But what makes this technology secure is that users are unable to replay the video without their partner's permission, which can only be given for a one-time playback and expires within a week.
Rumuki notes that the recordings 'are never sent across the internet' and are never touched by their servers. And even if your smartphones is stole, thieves will not be able to access the app because it also needs a password to login
What makes this technology secure is that users are unable to replay the video without their partner's permission, which can only be given for a one-time playback and expires within a week
This means that if the relationship ends on bad terms, neither of the parties will have to worry about their homemade video popping up on the web – or anywhere else for that matter.
The only way your partner could leak the video, according to Vocativ, is if they record the video while you've given them permission to play it back.
Rumuki is available in the Apple store, but users will need to have the current iOS to download it.
The firm notes that the Android version will be out shortly and is letting users request to be notified when it does.