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An airline passenger could face a $120,000 bill after fighter jets were scrambled when he joked about blowing up the plane (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Its the UK they invented that phrase.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Their text chat is not E2E

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

But arent client to server and end to end different? It sounded like he was talking about client to server like HTTPS or some such.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] Earthwormjim91 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Evia 3 points 10 months ago

That was a big question during the trial, too