Things like this are why I think the whole Facebook "encrypted messaging" thing is just a scam to try and look like they respect your privacy. It doesn't matter if you have the best encryption out there if the doors are wide open for them on either end and they're keylogging everything you do.
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If you don't hold the keys, your data may as well not be encrypted.
Just when I thought Facebook couldn't go any lower.
Isn't Snapchat terrible at security? Heard of someone who made a plane bombing joke in a private message and the airport wifi intercepted it and he got arrested
Id be surprised if there wasn't basic encryption to prevent a man in the middle attack like you described.
In the article the talk about needing to install certs to read encrypted traffic from the app.
Guillotines.
Meta acquired Onavo from an Israeli firm over 10 years ago, promising users private networking, as most VPNs do.
There is no doubt that it is meant to spy. I wonder if zuk bought WhatsApp with the intention to add Pegasus backdoor in it.
I'll never use a Meta/Facebook product if I can help it. They're pure evil.
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Court filings unsealed last week allege Meta created an internal effort to spy on Snapchat in a secret initiative called “Project Ghostbusters.” Meta did so through Onavo, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service the company offered between 2016 and 2019 that, ultimately, wasn’t private at all.
“Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted we have no analytics about them,” said Mark Zuckerberg in an email to three Facebook executives in 2016, unsealed in Meta’s antitrust case on Saturday.
It’s Meta’s in-house wiretapping tool to spy on data analytics from Snapchat starting in 2016, later used on YouTube and Amazon.
Meta acquired Onavo from an Israeli firm over 10 years ago, promising users private networking, as most VPNs do.
However, the service was reportedly used to spy on rival social media apps through tens of millions of people who downloaded Onavo.
Prosecutors also allege that Facebook violated the United States Wiretap Act, which prohibits the intentional procurement of another person’s electronic communications.
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