TL;DR

Don’t use snapchat

  • @[email protected]
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    310 months ago

    In general I agree, but there’s no privacy on airport Wi-Fi. And very little at an airport in general.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      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.

    • @Deckweiss
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      10 months ago

      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)

      • @[email protected]
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        610 months ago

        From the article:

        A court in Madrid heard it was assumed the message triggered alarm bells after being picked up via Gatwick’s Wi-Fi network.

        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.

        • @MigratingtoLemmy
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          210 months ago

          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

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          "A key question in the case was how the message got out, considering Snapchat is an encrypted app.

          One theory, raised in the trial, was that it could have been intercepted via Gatwick’s Wi-Fi network. But a spokesperson for the airport told BBC News that its network “does not have that capability”.

          In the judge’s resolution, cited by the Europa Press news agency, it was said that the message, “for unknown reasons, was captured by the security mechanisms of England when the plane was flying over French airspace”."

          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68099669

      • @sir_reginald
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        510 months ago

        it’s probably some sort of Snapchat automatic alert detecting the words bomb or Taliban.

    • @grayman
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      110 months ago

      Snapchat gave the info to police. From BBC:

      On its website, in a section titled “How We Work with Law Enforcement Authorities”, Snapchat says one of its goals is to “maintain a safe and fun environment where Snapchatters are free to express themselves and stay in touch with their real friends”.

      It adds: "We also work to proactively escalate to law enforcement any content appearing to involve imminent threats to life, such as school shooting threats, bomb threats and missing persons cases, and respond to law enforcement’s emergency requests for disclosure of data when law enforcement is handling a case involving an imminent threat to life.