Never joke about hijacking. Never.
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If your data leak just because you’re on “public Wi-Fi,” then your application level encryption failed.
@Axtremus said in Never joke about hijacking. Never.:
If your data leak just because you’re on “public Wi-Fi,” then your application level encryption failed.
I think the story is fishy. The only way it makes sense as told, is if the government has specialized technology to look at all the messages in real time. A more plausible explanation for the story is that it is only vaguely related to what actually happened.
From a different story about it:
British security services are thought to have picked up the message via Gatwick Airport’s public WiFi service, although there was no confirmation at the trial.
A pal who gave evidence on his behalf denied a prosecutor’s suggestion one of them could have shared the ‘Taliban bomb joke’ with others outside of their Snapchat group and it might have been picked up that way.
My guess is that the joke was shared by one of the intended recipients, and then someone reported it to the authorities.
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@Axtremus said in Never joke about hijacking. Never.:
No application level encryption in this day and age?
What chat app was he using?Snapchat, according to the story. They have to use app level encryption.
@Horace said in Never joke about hijacking. Never.:
@Axtremus said in Never joke about hijacking. Never.:
No application level encryption in this day and age?
What chat app was he using?Snapchat, according to the story. They have to use app level encryption.
Yes, I wondered the same thing.
Even TNCR uses https. Even if the chat service the kid used does not offer end-to-end encryption, surely the transmission from the kids phone to the server must have been encrypted.
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I don't understand the technology at play here. I don't think it's as simple as the owner of a public wifi having access to everything that passes through their network. I thought there was still encoding of messages.
@Horace said in Never joke about hijacking. Never.:
I don't understand the technology at play here. I don't think it's as simple as the owner of a public wifi having access to everything that passes through their network. I thought there was still encoding of messages.
I would wager that GCHQ, NSA, CSEC and every other NATO member has that capability 24/7.
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@Horace said in Never joke about hijacking. Never.:
I don't understand the technology at play here. I don't think it's as simple as the owner of a public wifi having access to everything that passes through their network. I thought there was still encoding of messages.
I would wager that GCHQ, NSA, CSEC and every other NATO member has that capability 24/7.
@Renauda said in Never joke about hijacking. Never.:
@Horace said in Never joke about hijacking. Never.:
I don't understand the technology at play here. I don't think it's as simple as the owner of a public wifi having access to everything that passes through their network. I thought there was still encoding of messages.
I would wager that GCHQ, NSA, CSEC and every other NATO member has that capability 24/7.
That would be not so much advanced technology, as a back door given to them by any given social media company. Good encryption still actually works as an immutable fact of mathematics, at least until quantum computers crack it.
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I think it's extremely unlikely that this kid got some fighter jets scrambled because he posted the joke on airport wifi and it was intercepted by advanced secret technology. More likely it was reported by a civilian, and the person so reported to panicked that they didn't want to be the one responsible for an attack they were warned about, considering the warning would surely be made public if the attack occured. If it was secretly intercepted, then it could have been dealt with more reasonably, which is to say, not at all.
