It's a shame it's a kid that doesn't have the resources to fight this, the UK public has already been conditioned to expect that all their messages are being tracked and read it seems.
It unfortunately doesn't sound like the prosecutors have any idea either.
I'm reminded that, years ago, an unsecured MongoDB instance was discovered on the internet, and it turned out be part of a feed of private social network activity to the Chinese police/government agencies.
I wonder if the UK government has a similar feed of Snapchat messages.
I'm also reminded of a video (apparently originally posted to Chinese social media by the police), of some schmuck locked in a tiger chair at a police station being forced to apologize for talking smack about the police in a private WeChat group (it was nothing political, the police were apparently confiscating motorcycles or something at the time and he didn't like it).
Agree, seems pretty odd that a court is told to assume something and not given the full story.
> A court in Madrid heard it was assumed the message triggered alarm bells after being picked up via Gatwick's Wi-Fi network.
The article states that the Spanish courts assumed his message was intercepted in the airport, not over the in-flight wifi.
It’s complete speculation anyway. As others have pointed out, the likely route the message took to the British intelligence services is via Snapchat disclosing it directly, not through some edge-network magic TLS-breaking packet sniffer.
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They don't actually state that was how the message was acquired. Snapchat uses TLS to deliver messages, so how would it be "picked up" via Wi-Fi?
Why does it matter? If he's innocent he shouldn't have anything to hide! /s
(not a prosecution though maybe, if it wasn't members of the group who thought it could be true)