Chess prodigy joked "I'm Taliban" in message, sparked fighter jet escort

Chess prodigy joked "I'm Taliban" in message, sparked fighter jet escort(dailymail.co.uk)

3 points by Thorondor 2 years ago | 6 comments

photoGrant 2 years ago |

The frightening part of this story for me is the lack of 'evidence' that any friends screenshotted/shared this information.

So if it was sent in a 'private snapchat' group -- and he's now potentially footing a 90k bill? For what? Incredible

quantified 2 years ago | |

> It was not made clear how they obtained the information, although a friend of Aditya's said the information - including the photo - could have been picked up from Gatwick Airport WiFi servers that one of the friends in the Snapchat group was using.

"Picked up from ... wifi servers" means either comms are unencrypted or there is a successful MITM presence there. Also likely is that Snapchat just raised the alarm.

RegnisGnaw 2 years ago | |

One of the friends says no one shared the photo, how do we know this to be true?

RegnisGnaw 2 years ago |

I think the message was more then "I'm Taliban", according to the article it was "On my way to blow up the plane. I'm a member of the Taliban."

I think blowing up the plane was a bigger deal

java-man 2 years ago |

Never greet a Jack on the plane.

eimrine 2 years ago |

That's a really nice joke about our whole world. Is this postironia?