That man just found out that your secure communication channel is as secure as the weakest node.
That’s also why, if you want to deGoogle your life, you’ve already lost if any of the people you email has a Gmail account: however careful you are not to provide Google any data yourself, the data is leaked to Google by the other party.
Well, Whatsapp and Facebook are their own honeypots. There’s heaps to say about why nobody should use them for any reasons.
But in this case, the man was found out because his accomplice had compromising messages on his cellphone. Be they Whatsapp message, SMS messages, emails… doesn’t matter here. It’s not a story of how communication channels operated by Big Data are not really secure and only designed to lure you in for your data, but a story of how one person’s carelessness did another person in.
That man just found out that your secure communication channel is as secure as the weakest node.
That’s also why, if you want to deGoogle your life, you’ve already lost if any of the people you email has a Gmail account: however careful you are not to provide Google any data yourself, the data is leaked to Google by the other party.
Same with WhatsApp and Facebook. Even if you’ve never installed or signed up for either they already know who you know.
Well, Whatsapp and Facebook are their own honeypots. There’s heaps to say about why nobody should use them for any reasons.
But in this case, the man was found out because his accomplice had compromising messages on his cellphone. Be they Whatsapp message, SMS messages, emails… doesn’t matter here. It’s not a story of how communication channels operated by Big Data are not really secure and only designed to lure you in for your data, but a story of how one person’s carelessness did another person in.