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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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British man Aditya Verma appears in Spanish court over plane-bomb hoax (www.bbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Don't use snapchat

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (17 children)

he wrote "On my way to blow up the plane (I'm a member of the Taliban)." in a private group chat on snap chat

...a private group chat. Nothing stupid like posting it on xitter or other public place.

Its a fucking in-joke. Do I need to worry about what I say to my friends now in private and worry about what my friendly local government spy would think about it... ?

All this invasion of privacy all these years and all they have to show for it are a few false positives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (10 children)

In general I agree, but there's no privacy on airport Wi-Fi. And very little at an airport in general.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Shouldn't it be all encrypted with SSL?

All the airport wifi could do is see the DNS requests (and the modern trend is to have DoH or DoT enabled by default, for example in the up to date versions of Android)