Re:Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret pro...
by blakesterz on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @07:18PM
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That was pretty much the point of Onavo: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/facebook-removes-onavo/
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Re:Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret pro...
by blcknight on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @07:30PM
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> Onavo [...] would collect the “Time you spend using apps, mobile and Wi-Fi data you use per app, the websites you visit, and your country, device and network type.”
That's the former type of collection I was talking about. There's no evidence I can find that they installed a root CA certificate and were MITM'ing connections. That's a major accusation and one that is not accurate as far as I can tell.
Apple banned the app because it was inspecting underlying traffic not installing a fake root certificate: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/
Re:Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret pro...
by snowwrestler on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @10:50PM
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You are quoting what Facebook claimed the app did.
The language in the lawsuit complaint is explicit that FB installed a root cert to MITM and decrypt traffic: