ISIS's Mobile App Developers Are in Crisis Mode
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/isis-mobile-app-developers-are-in-crisis-mode
When they say, "There's an app for everything," terror
propaganda is no exception. In the past six months, the
Islamic State (IS, ISIS, or Daesh) and its news agency, 'Amaq,
have officially developed at least six mobile apps, adding to
a list of other apps created by the group's supporters. These
developments say a lot about IS's priority to stay at the
forefront of social technologies. But, noting some developing
concerns by the group and its followers, IS's app machine may
prove to be a high-risk, high-cost experiment ... Just when it
seemed that IS had succeeded in creating a direct and
uninterrupted method of linking to its followers, the group
would show signs that its app operations had brought about new
risks. A notice disseminated officially by 'Amaq on June
1--and subsequently by other social media channels--claimed
that "dubious sources" were disseminating a fake version of
the 'Amaq app, purposed for "spying."
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