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Re:The myth of the ISIS encrypted messaging app by mikeash on Friday January 29, 2016 @10:34AM (#10995736)
"All of the media articles on the Alrawi app showed screenshots of a different app entirely, one that is a glorified RSS reader with a totally different name."

There was an article on the front page of HN recently about this "glorified RSS reader." This article actually described that functionality, and made no mention of any encrypted messaging. Despite that, it was submitted with a title that indicated it was an encrypted messaging app, and the comments were full of discussions about encrypted messaging and the eternal conflict between privacy and anti-terrorism efforts.

It really confused me. I guess this is an app that people really want to exist.

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Re:The myth of the ISIS encrypted messaging app by x5n1 on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:10PM (#11000440)
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” -George Orwell

or propaganda in this case.

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Re:The myth of the ISIS encrypted messaging app by gill984 on Friday January 29, 2016 @10:47AM (#10995820)
Link to HN post? I can't find it searching for "Alrawi" or "ISIS encrypt".
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Re:The myth of the ISIS encrypted messaging app by mikeash on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:06AM (#10995958)
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10916731

I believe the title was changed afterwards to better reflect the article's content. You can see lots of comments that think it's a chat app.

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Re:The myth of the ISIS encrypted messaging app by jacquesm on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:02AM (#10995925)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10916731
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