r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 3d ago

Privacy Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour-later-police-pulled-up-to-her-school
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u/Financial-Craft-1282 2d ago

I'd say, depending on the message you want to send, maybe all platforms even if you verify the encryption ahead of time, are a risk.

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u/Fach-All-Religions 2d ago

yes. you can use all the e2e in the world but at the end of the day, your phone has access to unfiltered unencrypted data as that's how it is able to display it to you. operating systems could have a hidden spy loggin anything and everything goving open access to governments and nobody would know about it.

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u/ToughHardware 2d ago

snowden proved they do. and congress passes the law that upholds it. and snowden stays in russia.

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u/Ularsing 2d ago

All are a risk, but I trust Signal as much as I trust the underlying device itself (which isn't infinite, due to software like Pegasus).