OP 03 April, 2024 - 03:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 03 April, 2024 - 06:53 PM by mindix. Edited 1 time in total.)
Facebook (or Meta or whichever the fuck you call it) is back in the news this time for spying on Snapchat users.
Back in 2016 when Snapchat was a threat to Facebook, the zuck wanted to gain insights into their competitor. se he sent out this email
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Later, Facebook hired Onavo, a company they acquired in 2013 with a history of data collection, for this purpose. Ironically, their project to spy on snapchat was codenamed "GhostBusters."
Anyway, their scheme was to offer paid surveys, but there was a catch. To participate, users had to install a root certificate on their phones. This certificate wasn't just any permission slip, it was a golden ticket to all the encrypted traffic on their device. Once they had this access with Snapchat and so the data coming, they went after even bigger fish: YouTube and Amazon. And when they got caught Facebook acted all innocent, like, "Come on, guys, it's us! Of course we were gonna do it for other apps too!
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Back in 2016 when Snapchat was a threat to Facebook, the zuck wanted to gain insights into their competitor. se he sent out this email
Later, Facebook hired Onavo, a company they acquired in 2013 with a history of data collection, for this purpose. Ironically, their project to spy on snapchat was codenamed "GhostBusters."
Anyway, their scheme was to offer paid surveys, but there was a catch. To participate, users had to install a root certificate on their phones. This certificate wasn't just any permission slip, it was a golden ticket to all the encrypted traffic on their device. Once they had this access with Snapchat and so the data coming, they went after even bigger fish: YouTube and Amazon. And when they got caught Facebook acted all innocent, like, "Come on, guys, it's us! Of course we were gonna do it for other apps too!
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resources: Seytonic
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