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It’s a terrible thing that’s happened, but fuck gadgetreview for that shitty misleading clickbait headline.
Editor knew they wouldn’t get the same impact with “teacher posted in a group chat that they were going to shoot a student”, so “group” becomes “private” and the detail about the threat gets moved way down into the article body. This is a journal who clearly wants to tell you what to think.
A group chat between 4 people should be just as private of a chat than between two people. Private isn't a quantity, you can have a private chat with 100 people if you wanted. However clearly none of its actually private.
This is so disturbingly common. Remember the dad that sent a picture to his son's pediatrician?
And in any other country that may have been correctly classed as a joke, but in the US it ain't a joke. What a dystopia
Time to tell everyone to uninstall their apps.. Oh, wait. We already did that.
It's pretty incredible how we leave digital footprints everywhere. Like the Device IDs that Windows uses on Win 11/10. They can find you pretty easily based on just that alone.
Very disturbing, it was the last straw to switch my chats (besides family) to Signal.
I had held onto Telegram for years because of their fun animated stickers, but yesterday discovered that Signal has those too, actually all sets from Telegram are available on unofficial Signal sticker sites, so now I'm all sorted 😅
The animated stickers on signal are trash in comparison and there are only a fraction as many, like 120 or so in total if I just counted correctly.
Funny that I have it the other way around. My entire fam on Signal and few (only close) friends on here
For anyone that doesn't know this yet, Telegram isn't secure - your messages are decrypted in the middle, on their servers. It's a shame they've got such a fun app otherwise
The duality of AI....one stops nonexistent threats another one happily puts you into danger
So the lesson to the rest of us is DO NOT USE SNAPCHAT especially for private messaging.
I use Signal, was pressed to do so by privacy-minded friends and have pressed other friends to adopt the client.
So long as you don't accidentally include Jeffrey Goldberg in your chat, you're okay.
