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Snapchat’s automated system flagged a private DM to three contacts and triggered an FBI alert in under 60 minutes, ending her teaching career

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[-] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 66 points 2 weeks ago

By all that is both sacred and profane do not click the link without an ad blocker enabled!

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

The link wouldn’t let me read it with an adblocker enabled. A window took up the screen telling me to disable it.

Which is why I went to an archive site and read it there.

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[-] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 55 points 2 weeks ago

One reason why you need to use a proper privacy respecting E2EE messaging e.g. Signal.

[-] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 21 points 2 weeks ago

Bonus points for one that does not even have your personal information e.g. Session.

[-] slothrop@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

+1 for session
also matrix....

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Add Delta Chat, Briar and Cwtch to that list!

[-] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

Briar is in a whole different league, definitely one to use, but at that point may as well add Meshtastic stuff to the list.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

Reticulum at that point. Probably its best use case

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[-] MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wasn't session closing down?

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[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 48 points 2 weeks ago

she sent a private Snapchat message referencing shooting the child or the school

Yeah talking about committing a school shooting is going to get you flagged.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 74 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think the government should be reading private messages

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

It usually (probably) isn't. Snapchat (meta) is reading your private messages and then sending problematic ones to the government.

If you don't like that, then you should be using a messaging system that's actually private. Which means, at a bare minimum, end-to-end encryption.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago

Snapchat is not owned by Meta

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not owned by meta yet

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

They're not private. Never were. Snapchat was always a lie.

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[-] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Pick up that can

[-] Mr_WorldlyWiseman 8 points 2 weeks ago

"should I shoot him?" is not a threat.

Also, who made you the judge jury and executioner of Snapchat messages that get you fired from your job?

That's the AI's job and I don't want to see you stealing jobs from hard working AIs.

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[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 weeks ago

oh but I thought you had nothing to hide Sharon?

I thought you didn't care about using private messaging?

I thought you said to me that Signal is used only for creeps and drug dealers that need to hide from the police?

Well, thank god you're not one of those, I guess...good for you Sharon

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[-] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 32 points 2 weeks ago

Oh cool. "Thought crime". Great.

[-] oyzmo@piefed.social 29 points 2 weeks ago

And still Snap says they can't stop the snap drug trade..

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What I don't get is how simply closing the laptop deletes anything.

On every laptop and every OS I used closing the lid just makes it go to sleep and everything is the same when you open it back up again. Never was anything deleted.

If somebody know a scenario where stuff would be deleted, please explain so that I can avoid it.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

You can set the lid-close trigger to do nothing, suspend, hibernate, or shut down. I'm assuming it was an unsaved document and the lid was set to shutdown on close.

I wanna know what monster sets the lid close action to shut down.

Like yeah it should be an option. But nobody should ever pick that option. And anyone who does should be shunned and socially isolated.

[-] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 14 points 2 weeks ago

When my PC suspends it unmounts the sd card, which can cause data loss if I am working on something that is not saved to the internal SSD.

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 6 points 2 weeks ago

ok... in my experience when shutting down windows it asks to save files and blocks the shutdown until then. Same for kde linux. No idea what mac does.

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

you have to go out of your way to disable autosaving drafts these days

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

The real question is who has an unsaved lesson plan open on their laptop. Just fuckin' improv style teaching method.

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[-] oyzmo@piefed.social 20 points 2 weeks ago

Private message - it isn't private if it can get flagged 😅 .... and seriously, think about everything you have ever said or written, imagine someone taking one of those private sentences out of context... To even think that was a real threat you had to act upon says tons about the country and system, the work- and school environment. Just sad really😢

[-] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 5 points 2 weeks ago

That's why big tech renamed them to direct messages (DM).

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[-] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 weeks ago
[-] yolocastillo@mastodon.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

The privacy vs convenience trade-off is real. I've been slowly replacing cloud services with self-hosted alternatives on my homelab: Nextcloud for files, Jellyfin for media, Immich for photos, and Gitea for code. The upfront setup effort is real, but waking up knowing your data is truly yours? Worth every minute. What's the one service you'd never self-host?

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[-] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji.

Yeah not getting any sympathy from me on that one...

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 weeks ago

It was a private message. You've never engaged in hyperbole with your friends?

[-] artyom@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

About shooting children? No. Absolutely not.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Somebody report Bill Watterson for threatening children.

Seriously, I've never met an involved parent (or any other child caretaker) who didn't admit to moments of hyperbole like this, even if only internally. You're just being a judgemental prick.

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[-] subverted_per 17 points 2 weeks ago

You dont know any teachers do you?

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

While I don't support mass surveillance I do think it is entirely inappropriate to "joke" about shooting someone.

[-] Mr_WorldlyWiseman 4 points 2 weeks ago

Good thing you're not friends with this random person in Illinois.

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