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:
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/