

"Further, when they are spotted as the most-active members, they enter into a private chat window and at last when the stage of payment delivery arrives, the hackers managed to receive a call from the sympathisers." "After identifying youths who could be radicalised and turned into members of sleeper cells, they are invited to a closed group where discussions are carried out in an organised manner." MAIL TODAY had earlier reported about this modus operandi followed by terrorist outfits. NIA arrests Bihar man in connection with terror activities, conducts raids in UP Like WhatsApp, these private chat rooms also provide the facility of communication in private groups but this is limited to 10 users each. Apart from that, the shredder facility to overwrite all deleted content on the device makes the situation more complicated for agencies. This helps the user set the expiration time on all messaging content. The messaging protocol enables strong end-toend encryption and perfect forward and backward secrecy for user content." MAIL TODAY learnt that these apps also provide the facility of "configurable expiration time".

"The code, policies, and security practices have been verified by the most-respected security research teams in the industry. Describing the other features of these apps that are a challenge for the security agencies, the hacker said the applications do not store any metadata associated with communications. "The address book of the user remains private and is not stored on the servers," he added. "After identifying youths who could be radicalised and turned into members of sleeper cells, they are invited to a closed group where discussions are carried out in an organised manner"
