Snapchat’s automated system flagged a private DM to three contacts and triggered an FBI alert in under 60 minutes, ending her teaching career

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[–] 69 points 2 months ago (3 children)

By all that is both sacred and profane do not click the link without an ad blocker enabled!

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  • [–] 58 points 2 months ago (13 children)

    One reason why you need to use a proper privacy respecting E2EE messaging e.g. Signal.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Bonus points for one that does not even have your personal information e.g. Session.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    +1 for session
    also matrix....

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Add Delta Chat, Briar and Cwtch to that list!

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    [–] 38 points 2 months ago (19 children)

    she sent a private Snapchat message referencing shooting the child or the school

    Yeah talking about committing a school shooting is going to get you flagged.

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  • [–] 72 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    I don't think the government should be reading private messages

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It usually (probably) isn't. Snapchat (meta) is reading your private messages and then sending problematic ones to the government.

    If you don't like that, then you should be using a messaging system that's actually private. Which means, at a bare minimum, end-to-end encryption.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Snapchat is not owned by Meta

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    [–] 35 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    oh but I thought you had nothing to hide Sharon?

    I thought you didn't care about using private messaging?

    I thought you said to me that Signal is used only for creeps and drug dealers that need to hide from the police?

    Well, thank god you're not one of those, I guess...good for you Sharon

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    [–] 31 points 2 months ago

    Oh cool. "Thought crime". Great.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago

    And still Snap says they can't stop the snap drug trade..

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago* (10 children)

    What I don't get is how simply closing the laptop deletes anything.

    On every laptop and every OS I used closing the lid just makes it go to sleep and everything is the same when you open it back up again. Never was anything deleted.

    If somebody know a scenario where stuff would be deleted, please explain so that I can avoid it.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    You can set the lid-close trigger to do nothing, suspend, hibernate, or shut down. I'm assuming it was an unsaved document and the lid was set to shutdown on close.

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    [–] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Private message - it isn't private if it can get flagged 😅 .... and seriously, think about everything you have ever said or written, imagine someone taking one of those private sentences out of context... To even think that was a real threat you had to act upon says tons about the country and system, the work- and school environment. Just sad really😢

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    The privacy vs convenience trade-off is real. I've been slowly replacing cloud services with self-hosted alternatives on my homelab: Nextcloud for files, Jellyfin for media, Immich for photos, and Gitea for code. The upfront setup effort is real, but waking up knowing your data is truly yours? Worth every minute. What's the one service you'd never self-host?

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