The article talks about &quot;safe sexting&quot; education as a solution, but I&#x27;d like to suggest that such a thing does not and perhaps will never exist.<p>It&#x27;s great that you trust the person you&#x27;re sending the pictures to not to share them, but you also have to trust:<p>1) That same person with that same responsibility even after you break up, including when they&#x27;re at their most angry with you.<p>2) That nobody (your school, your ISP, your government) is eavesdropping on your communication method.<p>3) The software that&#x27;s being used to both send and receive the photo.<p>4) That the recipient will keep their phone or PC physically secure so that random people can&#x27;t just click &quot;Photos&quot; and view them.<p>5) That the recipient won&#x27;t get &quot;hacked&quot; and have your photos uploaded online somewhere without their knowledge.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of parallels with DRM and copyright - once you&#x27;ve converted something into an easily-copyable form and sent it across a network, it&#x27;s very, very hard to make sure that it never gets copied again.  We should be telling teenagers (and maybe some older people too...) the truth - that if they sext, no matter how much they trust the other person, they&#x27;re taking a risk that their photos might end up shared more widely.