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Jeff Larson Mar 27, 2024

Look, I went over the Snowden documents as a journalist, but I never saw anything that shocked me quite like this story of Meta buying a VPN company for "security" but then spying on users of competitive apps by decrypting the traffic.

This is a real SSL added and removed here :) moment.

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

Court document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscourts.cand.369872.735.0.pdf

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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Jeff Larson Mar 27, 2024

also, can I say that it's completely nuts that, according to the complaint, 41 (forty one!) lawyers looked at this and were like:

"seems cool"

MY DUDES THE WIRETAP ACT IS RIGHT THERE.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscourts.cand.369872.735.0.pdf

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Sophie Schmieg Mar 27, 2024

@seriouslyjeff holy wow, a class action is letting them off easy. People should go to jail for this

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Jason Petersen (he)

@sophieschmieg @seriouslyjeff they are paying minors to subvert their security. I remember thinking at the time someone should pay for this and five years later I guess I’m still somehow surprised no one has.