Or he won’t because this is an old story that already has an acquittal: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68099669
Are chats on snapchat public? Because if not, this is just an admission of automatically scanning and evaluating all communications on the app no?
It was not immediately clear how UK authorities were alerted to the message, with the judge noting “they were not the subject of evidence in this trial”.
A literal “We’re not the ones on trial here!” Holy shit.
Its the UK they invented that phrase.
Snapchat is not end-to-end encrypted, so they saw the message and notified the authorities. So yes, exactly.
“Intercepted while the plane was over England through unknown reasons” my ass lmao.
That was a big question during the trial, too
Uh Snapchat already does that. Nothing about it is encrypted. And deleted messages are only deleted from your device, not snapchats servers.
Serious question: what would these fighter planes actually do in such situation?
I guess they could shoot the airliner down if it starts flying toward any towers.
But that wasnt the threat. They were going to stop him from blowing up the plane by… blowing up the plane.
There is a difference between the plane being blown up over London, or shot down over farm fields
By blowing up the plane before it can blow up and whatever else it hits.
In theory, the threat could have just been a bluff to gain control of the plane.
bluffing a threat to the plane by snapchatting your friend would be a weird move. No one on the plane even knew a “threat” was made.
It seems like “we have no details at all about the threat (because it wasn’t actually credible), so let’s just be prepared for every situation” is the logic.
Yup, some higher up will make the call to shoot it down before more damage can be made.
They’d get a really big megaphone and tell the pilot “Pull over!”
jk, they’ll just fire a Sidewinder missile at it if it deviates from its flight path.
Guessing it gives them information on what is actually happening on the plane. If the pilots were being held against their will they could be following orders from a hijacker.
Sounds logical.
Good thing to know that private messages are fully monitored at all times
How did they know the message came from him? Profile pic? Seems pretty work intensive (if it’s even possible) to connect a UUID to an IP address and search everyone’s phone for their UUID.
