Originally Posted by
Austrian Simon
However, the BBC story raises one more question: how could one access the mobile phone and get to the video without PIN/password in this time? This all doesn't fit together.
Servus, Simon
It's clear you don't understand how Facebook Live works.
Once the live stream has finished, Facebook usually process the video and it then becomes a normal Facebook post. It doesn't happen immediately.
And as you can see from the below, one of their friends has confirmed it was his friends who were streaming.
Vishal Koswal, 21, a close friend of the four men heard in the video, confirmed the authenticity of the video.
He identified the four men, all from Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, as 29-year-old Jaiswal, 28-year-old Anil Rajbhar, 23-year-old Vishal Sharma and Abhishek Singh Kushwaha, 23, who had left for Nepal on 12 January. Local police also confirmed their identities.
I don't think there's any doubt that the video is genuine and I can't see the point in any more incorrect straw clutching to try and "prove" it isn't. This is not elite, special technology, just a normal social media function that lots of people use all the time. Once the stream had stopped, the video is in the cloud and it doesn't matter what happens to the phone.