Aditya Verma sent a Snapchat message in July 2022 saying he was about to "blow up" a plane.

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Don’t use snapchat

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It very much matters. When something is proprietary there is a, no alternatives that will function exactly the same and b, you don’t know what its really doing. For all you know its detecting the sniffing and changing its behavior.

Additionally how do you know what’s being sent if its encrypted.

Yeah, see my edit.

Before the edit, I just meant the technicality itself: is it actually encrypted or is it plain text? This would have mattered if the state intercepted the message somehow, spying on their citizens. But apparently they did not, because snapchat leaked the data to them in a semi-automated manner: auto-generated incident report based on filtering gets escalated to authorities.

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No matter what it was this is just a reminder to use Foss encrypted chats that have been validated by at least one security audit.

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