TL;DR

Don’t use snapchat

  • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Shouldn’t it be all encrypted with SSL?

    All the airport wifi could do is see the DNS requests (and the modern trend is to have DoH or DoT enabled by default, for example in the up to date versions of Android)

    • JohnnyCanuck@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      From the article:

      A court in Madrid heard it was assumed the message triggered alarm bells after being picked up via Gatwick’s Wi-Fi network.

      Public wifi without a VPN is like sex without a condom. The connection may not be encrypted (very risky) and even if it is, you are still susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks: https://www.garlandtechnology.com/blog/how-to-monitor-encrypted-traffic-and-keep-your-network-secure

      I guarantee there will be a flood of articles about this over the next few days because of what I quoted above.

      It’s also possible that one of his “friends” reported him or something like that.

      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Please explain to me how using Public WiFi is unsafe if the traffic is encrypted with TLS. Unless they somehow installed a keylogger on everyone connected to said Wifi and picked it up from there, the only way this was possible was on some quick text analysis and recognising the IP address from Snapchat