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Next time we will advice victims to write private snapchat message!
> "Snapchat’s algorithm didn’t get the humor." Presumably, the actual text of the message was reviewed by a human? So the human(s) didn't get the humor either? EDIT: by "humans" I mean the FBI / cops.
That's a really generous presumption. The direction this industry is moving towards is to use AI to avoid human involvement. At best, their algorithm flagged it, and a human rubber-stamped it.
When things like this happen, it puts the products' deliberate security vulnerabilities (and in this case, outright hostility) in stark relief. But then people think "I wouldn't be that stupid" or "what can I even do about it" as they go right back to continue relying on these products.
It's certainly understandable how we all have to compromise and suffer insecure systems simply in order to get things done, especially when interfacing with strangers. But for our most intimate communications and personal relationships, we should insist on secure software! This wouldn't have happened with Matrix, this wouldn't have happened with XMPP, this wouldn't have even happened with Signal. And to that reflexive thought of "that takes too much time and effort, especially for non-techies" - I'm pretty sure the person in the article sure wishes she had spend that effort now!
Story aside, I'm most concerned with how closing a laptop "deleted" the lesson plan! It's hard to imagine how that could occur, and I've worked with a lot of people who aren't very technical.
Is it possible to write a custom android keyboard that would let you use these compromised messenger apps by transmitting encrypted base64 text (plaintext to aes binary to base64 and back) and opaquely decrypting it? Could the app act like a translator app, but really provide encryption instead?
This is why you use end to end encrypted communications.
If you do not control the application that sends messages, the application can always do E2E, only to spy on the messages on the end devices and snitch if necessary... We need E2E + no "bonus features", and to ensure both hold you need to review the code.
Is this article written by AI? The story telling seems distinctly AI
The linked sources exist, so who cares?
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