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@ 2024/03/28Meta spied on Snatchat secrets
Tech titans at Meta have been caught with their hands in the digital cookie jar playing a sneaky game of peek-a-boo with Snapchat's secrets in a hush-hush op dubbed "Project Ghostbusters."
Meta supremo Mark Zuckerberg, was itching to get the lowdown on Snapchat's encrypted chatter.
Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted we have no analytics about them," said Mark Zuckerberg in an email to three Facebook executives in 2016, unsealed in Meta's antitrust case on Saturday. "It seems important to figure out a new way to get reliable analytics about them... You should figure out how to do this."
So Meta created a crafty VPN called Onavo that's more like a double agent than a privacy pal.
Meta's boffins cobbling together some nifty "kits" for iOS and Android to eavesdrop on the competition. YouTube and Amazon got the same treatment, with Onavo users none the wiser that they were the bait in this cyber spy game.
Tech titans at Meta have been caught with their hands in the digital cookie jar playing a sneaky game of peek-a-boo with Snapchat's secrets in a hush-hush op dubbed "Project Ghostbusters."
Meta supremo Mark Zuckerberg, was itching to get the lowdown on Snapchat's encrypted chatter.
Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted we have no analytics about them," said Mark Zuckerberg in an email to three Facebook executives in 2016, unsealed in Meta's antitrust case on Saturday. "It seems important to figure out a new way to get reliable analytics about them... You should figure out how to do this."
So Meta created a crafty VPN called Onavo that's more like a double agent than a privacy pal.
Meta's boffins cobbling together some nifty "kits" for iOS and Android to eavesdrop on the competition. YouTube and Amazon got the same treatment, with Onavo users none the wiser that they were the bait in this cyber spy game.
