Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

bluejay
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Was it Facebook that killed xmpp or Google? Legitimately asking because I’ve always seen that blamed on Google.

@[email protected]
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It was Google, they Embraced, Extended, and Extinguished it with Google Chat. Then they killed that themselves.

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correction: it was both! fedbook chat also supported xmpp at first, they never federated but you could at least use it with a jabber client. then when they had enough market share they killed it.

fun semi related fact is that whatsapp, at least a couple of years ago, was using modified ejabberd (ie an xmpp server) as the backend - so arguably they helped with EEE too.

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XMPP was never alive lol

b3nsn0w
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google does seem to be the main culprit, but facebook still played a role as far as i’m aware. these two companies also colluded a lot so i wouldn’t trust either of them with anything federated

bluejay
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Yeah they can both get fucked. Cheers

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