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>Mr Verma's message was picked up by the UK security services who flagged it to Spanish authorities while the easyJet plane was still in the air. It sounds lik

by Dig1t 3y ago

>Mr Verma's message was picked up by the UK security services who flagged it to Spanish authorities while the easyJet plane was still in the air. It sounds like the UK government is spying on citizens’ private messages to each other. The article says it was sent only to people he was traveling with on the day of his flight. This strikes me as extremely authoritarian and scary. Europeans: why are there not mass protests about this? Is this the kind of world that you actually want to live in? Is it just apathy? Or is this seen as a good thing?

timmb 3y ago
Not the constitutional protection like in the US. It just creeps in bit by bit.
klmr 3y ago
> why are there not mass protests about this? Because we hadn’t heard about this case before. — At all. If the vague information in this article is actually corroborated there’ll be an outcry alright.
- neom 3y ago
  I learned about it 2 years ago: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11002673/Chess-playing-economics-genius-arrested-EasyJet-bomb-hoax-says-sorry-moment-madness.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11002673/Chess-play... "The message was picked up by their mobiles on Gatwick airport's Wi-Fi servers and immediately triggered alarm bells with security because of the sensitive words used." I thought that was weird then and I still think it's weird now, either there is a pretty big problem or the daily mail is inaccurate. This whole article is lala land from a tech perspective and I'm quite curious about it.
  - ghaff 3y ago
    From that article it seems like it's the kid who assumed it was the WiFi that caused the leak. 'But I was using the data on my phone and they were using the Wi-Fi at Gatwick and so the message was picked up by the security people.' As far as I know, it doesn't seem like anyone in the UK has said where they got the info from. And the Daily Mail may just be assuming the kid's right and is jumping to a conclusion.
averageRoyalty 3y ago
It's extremely likely this information was provided to the UK government via a 5 eyes agency (probably the US), and that the UK are capturing data on US citizens to send to the US government. You very likely live in this world too.

by Dig1t 3y ago

timmb 3y ago

Not the constitutional protection like in the US. It just creeps in bit by bit.

klmr 3y ago

> why are there not mass protests about this? Because we hadn’t heard about this case before. — At all. If the vague information in this article is actually corroborated there’ll be an outcry alright.

neom 3y ago
I learned about it 2 years ago: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11002673/Chess-playing-economics-genius-arrested-EasyJet-bomb-hoax-says-sorry-moment-madness.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11002673/Chess-play... "The message was picked up by their mobiles on Gatwick airport's Wi-Fi servers and immediately triggered alarm bells with security because of the sensitive words used." I thought that was weird then and I still think it's weird now, either there is a pretty big problem or the daily mail is inaccurate. This whole article is lala land from a tech perspective and I'm quite curious about it.
- ghaff 3y ago
  From that article it seems like it's the kid who assumed it was the WiFi that caused the leak. 'But I was using the data on my phone and they were using the Wi-Fi at Gatwick and so the message was picked up by the security people.' As far as I know, it doesn't seem like anyone in the UK has said where they got the info from. And the Daily Mail may just be assuming the kid's right and is jumping to a conclusion.

averageRoyalty 3y ago

It's extremely likely this information was provided to the UK government via a 5 eyes agency (probably the US), and that the UK are capturing data on US citizens to send to the US government. You very likely live in this world too.