Telegram messaging app shuts down 78 ISIS channels

[LiberalArkie]

The Telegram messaging app said Wednesday that it had blocked 78 ISIS-related channels across 12 languages.

However, private communications among ISIS members would not be affected by the move.

On Tuesday, CNNMoney reported that Telegram had become popular among ISIS members for its promise of highly encrypted communication. It's "the new hot thing among jihadists," said Laith Alkhouri, director of Research at Flashpoint Global Partners.

The Berlin-based startup boasts two layers of encryption and claims to be "faster and more secure" than its competitor WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook.

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http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/18/technology/telegram-isis-shutdown/index.html?iid=hp-toplead-dom

[KamaAina]

1. I'd be interested to know which 12 languages

Well, Arabic, English and French, duh, but which other ones?

[matt819]

3. Some possibilities

Urdu
Hindi
Pushto
Bahasa Indonesia
Dari

[maxsolomon]

2. How can anyone in the "Caliphate" message on Telegram at all?

How is there Mobile Phone service there? How is there Internet?

Yes, I understand that all Daesh supporters aren't in Syria. Obviously.

If only Syria had AT&T...

[KamaAina]

4. The Internet was designed to route around damage.

Even that from a nuclear war.

One positive is the old 'Net adage "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

[maxsolomon]

5. but cellular networks?

ultimately, that's a network of towers that hand signals off.

they don't all have sat phones.