• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    Are chats on snapchat public? Because if not, this is just an admission of automatically scanning and evaluating all communications on the app no?

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      9 months ago

      It was not immediately clear how UK authorities were alerted to the message, with the judge noting “they were not the subject of evidence in this trial”.

      A literal “We’re not the ones on trial here!” Holy shit.

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      Snapchat is not end-to-end encrypted, so they saw the message and notified the authorities. So yes, exactly.

      “Intercepted while the plane was over England through unknown reasons” my ass lmao.

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      No they are not. It was intended as a private joke among friends.

      It was not immediately clear how UK authorities were alerted to the message, with the judge noting “they were not the subject of evidence in this trial”.

      A spokesperson for Snapchat said the social media platform would not “comment on what’s happened in this individual case”.

      On its website, in a section titled “How We Work with Law Enforcement Authorities”, Snapchat says one of its goals is to “maintain a safe and fun environment where Snapchatters are free to express themselves and stay in touch with their real friends”.

      It adds: "We also work to proactively escalate to law enforcement any content appearing to involve imminent threats to life, such as school shooting threats, bomb threats and missing persons cases, and respond to law enforcement’s emergency requests for disclosure of data when law enforcement is handling a case involving an imminent threat to life.

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        9 months ago

        Also happened on airline WiFi presumably and I would guess that saying terrorist sounding shit over unencrypted channels on that sort of network is dumb as shit.

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          Is Snapchat not encrypted at all? If it’s encrypted between the phone and the server then it must have been intercepted at the server end, either by Snapchat or by the intelligence services. Or on the phone before encryption, by the OS, keyboard, or Snapchat app.

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          Thats not how that works. Even tho snapchat messages might not be e2ee they are still client to server encrypted. The operator of a wifi network can never see your message content, only which services you are using.

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      9 months ago

      Uh Snapchat already does that. Nothing about it is encrypted. And deleted messages are only deleted from your device, not snapchats servers.