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he wrote "On my way to blow up the plane (I'm a member of the Taliban)." in a private group chat on snap chat
...a private group chat. Nothing stupid like posting it on xitter or other public place.
Its a fucking in-joke. Do I need to worry about what I say to my friends now in private and worry about what my friendly local government spy would think about it... ?
All this invasion of privacy all these years and all they have to show for it are a few false positives.
PRISM
The spying is not what suprises me, it's the prosecution. I see why the term matched, I just don't see why it would be illegal.
Honestly I hope that this trial is swift and that the government ends up paying him for lost time and money.
On the other hand this is a really good reason to use encrypted communications
He was acquitted, thankfully.
In general I agree, but there's no privacy on airport Wi-Fi. And very little at an airport in general.
I wouldn't expect my data to be secure, but I wouldn't expect to be prosecuted as if I had willfully made it a public statement.
Shouldn't it be all encrypted with SSL?
All the airport wifi could do is see the DNS requests (and the modern trend is to have DoH or DoT enabled by default, for example in the up to date versions of Android)
it's probably some sort of Snapchat automatic alert detecting the words bomb or Taliban.
Probably more likely to be surveillance of Snapchat.
From the article:
Public wifi without a VPN is like sex without a condom. The connection may not be encrypted (very risky) and even if it is, you are still susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks: https://www.garlandtechnology.com/blog/how-to-monitor-encrypted-traffic-and-keep-your-network-secure
I guarantee there will be a flood of articles about this over the next few days because of what I quoted above.
It's also possible that one of his "friends" reported him or something like that.
Please explain to me how using Public WiFi is unsafe if the traffic is encrypted with TLS. Unless they somehow installed a keylogger on everyone connected to said Wifi and picked it up from there, the only way this was possible was on some quick text analysis and recognising the IP address from Snapchat