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Turn it over to law enforcement. A single chat message is rarely a crime, but can be used to find further evidence of crime.
by deathgrips 6y ago
Turn it over to law enforcement. A single chat message is rarely a crime, but can be used to find further evidence of crime.
- some_furry 6y agoTurn what over to law enforcement? The ciphertext and timestamp?
- deathgrips 6y agoA statement from the user who submitted it, including their unverifiable copy of the offensive message. The law is not computer code. They don't need to break ciphertext to get a warrant.
- some_furry 6y agoYou can do this thing called "message franking" to make it more verifiable, if you want. The downside is, context matters. If you report messages out-of-order or with important context deleted, you can trick investigators into thinking something was said or implied that actually wasn't. It needs to be carefully designed. (I blog about cryptography, but you should ask a cryptographer if you want to design something like this.)
- deathgrips 6y agoI don't design message apps. I just know that law enforcement did just fine before the internet when most communication (face to face, over the phone) wasn't recorded or verifiable.
- Spivak 6y agoIf we’re talking about content that you literally don’t have access to and can’t see because it’s encrypted, like iMessage or Signal then you don’t need Section 230 protection because you aren’t moderating content.