Lorenzo Franceschi-BicchieraiMar 26, 2024

NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they behaved, unsealed court documents reveal.

This was part of a secret program called "Project Ghostbusters," and even inside the company, it was very controversial.

“I can’t think of a good argument for why this is okay. No security person is ever comfortable with this, no matter what consent we get from the general public. The general public just doesn’t know how this stuff works,” Pedro Canahuati, Facebook's then-head of security engineering, wrote in an email.

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

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch

A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.

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Show threadJohn Skiles Skinner
@lorenzofb
So they *bought* a VPN company, presumably serving security-minded customers, so that they could transform that VPN into spyware? Yikes that's low
Mar 26, 2024 at 11:34pmWeb
Show threadAlexander The 1stMar 27, 2024
@skiles @lorenzofb Doubly so, because this basically opens them up the government surveillance of their surveillance technology, and we're...back to why end-to-end encryption was a whole thing.
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 27, 2024

@skiles @lorenzofb What do you expect from a #PRISM collaborator like #NSAbook / #StasiBook?

OFC they gonna do the shit that everyone accuses #ByteDance and then some in broad daylight!