[andthenzen]

Thanks! I assume it's referencing this sentence and surrounding info: > "Dozens of documents from across the company reveal that Zuckerberg had spoken to the company’s head of security, its then-CTO, and others about the risks and rewards of the IAAP program—which involved the interception and decryption of secure analytics traffic from Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon for competitive reasons—and would personally make a decision about whether to continue it."

I'm not sure where it jumps to "wiretapping" (just from a layperson's standpoint). The image I had in my head was Meta tapping the phones or devices of Amazon and Youtube employees which was probably a silly interpretation of the title.

[sp332]

The headlines around this have definitely blown things up. Running a VPN service so you can snoop on how customers use other services is plenty scummy, no need for the catastrophising.

[brianaker]

Running a VPN service would not be wiretapping, but that is not what they were doing, and understand they had multiple avenues that they explored.

If you want to focus on just the VPN bit though; running a VPN would not break Amazon's secure communication. For Facebook/Meta to accomplish what they did they had to place fake endpoints in-between Amazon and its customers where they could pretend to be the party Amazon thought it was communicating with.