Some Terrorists Could Be Using A Very Common Device To Send Hidden Messages
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Six separate attacks, nearly 130 dead. Analysts say the mass killings in Paris likely took months to plan with ways to "blindspot" communication. Now, the intelligence community is pointing to "dark apps" or phone programs we can all download to encrypt or even erase messages.
"Although the technology for terrorism may be low tech, the communications between the planners and the executors was done in a very sophisticated manner," said Drexel Director of Computing and Security Technology for Homeland Security Scott White.
Many like White are also pointing to new gaming consoles like Sony's PlayStation 4 with a user base on the console's internet infrastructure of more than 65 million users.
Chatting software allows those users to form "parties" allowing for "dark conversations."
"The operating systems in gaming consoles are much different from what you'd see in a standard computer," White said. "It's a completely different way of forensically auditing those machines as well."
So far, no way to know if the terrorists plotted mass murder over a game of "Call of Duty" but many are now saying it's not just possible, but probable.