Encrypted Chat Apps Doubling As Illegal Marketplaces
Friday, 14 May 2021, 10:30 am Encrypted chat apps are gaining popularity worldwide due to their central premise of not sending user data to tech giants. Some popular examples include WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal. These apps have also been adopted by businesses to securely communicate directly to their users. Additionally, these apps have been instrumental to subverting authoritarian regimes. For example, Telegram has been used by pro-democracy dissidents to organize protests in Hong Kong, and communicate amongst themselves in Russia, Belarus, Thailand, and Iran. However, we’ve found that e...