British man appears in Spanish court over plane-bomb hoax
bbc.co.uk>The message, sent before Mr Verma departed Gatwick airport, read: "On my way to blow up the plane (I'm a member of the Taliban)."
>Mr Verma's message was picked up by the UK security services who flagged it to Spanish authorities while the easyJet plane was still in the air.
>A court in Madrid heard it was assumed the message triggered alarm bells after being picked up via Gatwick's Wi-Fi network.
I don't see what this has to do with Gatwick's wifi - presumably one of these agencies have their hooks in Snapchat somewhere, PRISM-style.
Yer it's quite curious, the snapchat endpoint would be behind https surely. So nothing todo with the airport Wifi? The story assumes none of his friends reported him, which I guess could be plausible. Maybe snapchat has internal systems to raise the alarm?
It's not clear what law would have been violated here.
> "A British man accused of public disorder"
Is it public disorder, if it's in a private chat, intercepted by members of the security services?