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It doesn't explain how the authorities got ahold of that message, since it was sent in private allegedly. Also the entire process is happening in Spain and he
by vdaea 3y ago
It doesn't explain how the authorities got ahold of that message, since it was sent in private allegedly.
Also the entire process is happening in Spain and he has British citizenship - can't he just ignore the courts?
- smeej 3y agoIt was sent over the airport's WiFi. Snapchat doesn't even claim their messages are encrypted end-to-end or anything, do they?
- vdaea 3y agoEven then I'm sure they are sent over TLS.
- llacb47 3y agoProbably a root certificate that you need to install to browse on the airport wifi.
- klmr 3y agoI’m not saying this doesn’t happen but I can’t remember ever having been asked to install a root certificate when joining an airport wifi. And I am confident that this has never happened when I’ve flown out from Gatwick.
- llacb47 3y agoPerhaps the GCHQ have a backdoor in snapchat then, which is comforting
- aaix 3y agosnapchat uses certificate pinning so i dont think this would work anyways
- troupe 3y agoRight, so either the airport is running something that can break TLS, or snapchat is feeding a stream of private messages to the government with location information provided.
- RajT88 3y agoAlmost certainly the second.
- bemusedthrow75 3y agoWhy would you think he can ignore the courts? Britain and Spain have an extradition treaty.
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