It's called "Telegram" and is the new global social platform of terrorists against which, at the moment, there is no countermeasure. The multimedia platform ensures maximum privacy, stores files, bank accounts and protects user identity The digital messaging system invented by two Russian brothers, Pavel and Nikolai Durov forced to move to Berlin, is based on various cryptographic systems for file storage and transmission. Private chats can host up to 200 users. The same public posts, ensure visibility of the content (which cannot be removed) and maximum protection of the user's identity.
The alarm was launched by all the intelligence agencies on the planet. Users of ISIS or al-Qaeda, whose accounts (as well as videos) are continuously suspended from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, are flocking to the new social alternative. Telegram, new frontier of jihadist communication, today it escapes any kind of control. To ensure the privacy and efficiency of their 50 millions of users who send and receive more than 12 billions of messages a day, Telegram, encrypts all messages. If in the delivery of the latter the system detects an anomaly, the messages are automatically deleted. It is considered by experts as "an underground railway for the distribution and storage of jihad propaganda material", 14 2013 went online on August. But only since last September Telegram has launched the possibility to publish videos via appropriate channels (in Twitter style). In just one week, at least 200 jihadist channels with Isis affiliation have appeared, broadcasting in a dozen languages: Arabic, Bosnian, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Kurdish, Russian, Turkish and Urdu.
We are against violence - the two brothers who fled from Moscow responded to the New York Times last year - before leaving our country we created VKontakte, a social platform similar to Facebook. It was seized by the government a few weeks later.
Telegram - explain the brothers today a FoxNews - is a symbol of faith in the free market, a beacon of Internet privacy. It's a pity that Telegram it has become the ideal platform for any illegal activity, especially for jihadists seeking to recruit, fund and spread their propaganda.
It is read on the website of Telegram "All private and group chats are protected and belong to their respective users. We do not process any requests regarding their content. There will be no restrictions on freedom of speech and expression. Telegram does not censure the possibility of criticizing a government. This goes against the principles of our founders ".
