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Snapchat texts aren’t encrypted, you had a text about a bomb sent from an airport. So you have the threatening content, sensitive location, and likely sufficie
by dogma1138 3y ago
Snapchat texts aren’t encrypted, you had a text about a bomb sent from an airport.
So you have the threatening content, sensitive location, and likely sufficient account information which can be matched to a traveler list.
How many messages a day do you think fit that criteria?
- ghaff 3y agoProbably more than you imagine. The sheer volume of Snapchat messages means that I can't imagine fewer than hundreds and maybe many more people being arrested/questioned for suspicious private messages from near sensitive locations on an annual basis.
- pests 3y agoHow did Snapchat scramble fighter jets?
- BizarroLand 3y agoUnencrypted web traffic sent from the airport's wifi. Yeah, that adds up. Should have either been on your cell plan or using E2E for stupid stuff like that.
- karmakaze 3y agoNot even e2e, just https (or anything using PKI root cert chain).
- xboxnolifes 3y agoI'd imagine thousands per day. Maybe even hundreds per airport.
- ghaff 3y agoI'm being deliberately conservative. My basic point is that if the big governments were flagging everything that passed some threshold of possible threat, you'd have a volume of false positives that it's really hard for me to imagine being way under the radar. I have trouble believing that the intelligence services are so masterful at parsing threats--within the hour--with almost nary a false positive.