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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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[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 69 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The link wouldn’t let me read it with an adblocker enabled. A window took up the screen telling me to disable it.

Which is why I went to an archive site and read it there.

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[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 58 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

+1 for session
also matrix....

[–] MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't session closing down?

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Add Delta Chat, Briar and Cwtch to that list!

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Briar is in a whole different league, definitely one to use, but at that point may as well add Meshtastic stuff to the list.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Reticulum at that point. Probably its best use case

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 38 points 2 months ago (5 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.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 72 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 38 points 2 months ago (4 children)

exactly. someone letting off steam to family or friends is as old as time. heck. bar conversation even.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 11 points 2 months ago (1 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.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Snapchat is not owned by Meta

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not owned by meta yet

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

tangent, but:

and yet Facebook still snooped on Snapchat via MITM attacks

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

They're not private. Never were. Snapchat was always a lie.

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[–] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Pick up that can

"should I shoot him?" is not a threat.

Also, who made you the judge jury and executioner of Snapchat messages that get you fired from your job?

That's the AI's job and I don't want to see you stealing jobs from hard working AIs.

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[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 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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[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 31 points 2 months ago

Oh cool. "Thought crime". Great.

[–] oyzmo@piefed.social 29 points 2 months ago

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

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 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.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (5 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.

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 14 points 2 months ago

When my PC suspends it unmounts the sd card, which can cause data loss if I am working on something that is not saved to the internal SSD.

I wanna know what monster sets the lid close action to shut down.

Like yeah it should be an option. But nobody should ever pick that option. And anyone who does should be shunned and socially isolated.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ok... in my experience when shutting down windows it asks to save files and blocks the shutdown until then. Same for kde linux. No idea what mac does.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you have to go out of your way to disable autosaving drafts these days

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The real question is who has an unsaved lesson plan open on their laptop. Just fuckin' improv style teaching method.

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[–] oyzmo@piefed.social 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😢

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 6 points 2 months ago

That's why big tech renamed them to direct messages (DM).

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[–] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago

"private" snapchat.

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