Cyber Caliphate: What Apps Are the Islamic State Using?

... by Mark Zuckerberg in 2014 for $19 billion, the messenger has 1 billion users worldwide). In the light of complaints about Telegram and WhatsApp and as laws are tightened, terrorists have become preoccupied with the creation of their own application.... ... , Alrawi possesses complete encryption. The Ghost report noted that after American drone strikes destroyed the prominent cybersecurity specialist Junaid Hussain in the summer of 2015, the cyber caliphate’s effectiveness declined dramatically. “They ...