{"id":145846,"date":"2015-04-15T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/target\/a-cia-backed-company-may-be-scanning-all-your-facebook-chats\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:18:49","slug":"a-cia-backed-company-may-be-scanning-all-your-facebook-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/a-cia-backed-company-may-be-scanning-all-your-facebook-chats\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Facebook Chat Sessions Logged By CIA-Funded Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\">If you thought your Facebook chats are safe from prying eyes, you\u2019re apparently wrong. <a href=\"http:\/\/bosnadev.com\/2015\/04\/14\/facebook-chats-are-being-scanned-by-a-cia-funded-company\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bosnadev<\/a> says that Facebook\u2019s chats are being scanned by a CIA -funded company,\u00a0a discovery\u00a0Bosnadev\u00a0made after looking into\u00a0some unusual activity on a website triggered by a link present in a Facebook chat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the testing of an application we\u2019ve set up in a non-published area we have noticed some unusual activity. The link for the app was sent via Facebook chat and afterwards comes the interesting part,\u201d Bosnadev said, publishing a list of \u201clots of IPv6 for a single Facebook check\u201d as the aforementioned interesting part.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigating the matter, Bosnadev tracked logs for a new URL address that was sent over Facebook chat and discovered similar behavior. Upon researching Facebook chat scans, Bosnadev discovered information about a third-party company called Recorded Future that\u2019s received funding from Google Ventures and the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this company was the primary culprit for scanning Facebook chats.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2015\/04\/14\/facebook-chat-privacy-and-scans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought your Facebook chats are safe from prying eyes, you\u2019re apparently wrong. Bosnadev says that Facebook\u2019s chats are being scanned by a CIA -funded company,\u00a0a discovery\u00a0Bosnadev\u00a0made after looking into\u00a0some unusual activity on a website triggered by a link present in a Facebook chat. \u201cDuring the testing of an application we\u2019ve set up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}