The Islamic State or ISIS has reportedly developed its own secure appchangeς μηνυμάτων για συσκευές Android, according to security team GhostSec.
The application Alwari, reports GhostSec is being used by terrorist members organizations to communicate with each other. The security team discovered that it has features of encrypted communications, but also basic features of the Telegram communication app.
The ISIS terrorist organization seems to have been struggling with the use of conventional social networks such as Telegram and WhatsApp, especially after the attacks by Anonymous revealing the identity of its members.
Although this has not stopped the t.o. ISIS to use websites like Tumblr.
Application security is not as complicated and careful as security using applications such as Telegram or WhatsApp according to Fortune, but the ISIS terrorist group can be assured that app developers will not add a backdoor and give it to governments or intelligence services.
The application does not exist in Google Play for obvious reasons, and anyone interested should look it up in darker corners of the Web. Of course, since it was published, we have no doubt that it is already in the hands of the secret services.
As we often say, several governments are wondering whether adding backdoors to applications and operating systems could help prevent terrorism.
But if teams such as ISIS have the know-how to develop their own applications, or social networks, the great losers of backdoors in applications and encryption will only be our personal freedoms.
