John McAfee has launched a new messaging platform with heightened security that shares encrypted text between intended users and has no key to decrypt messages.
In the light of recent events, people have grown to think more about their privacy than ever. Several attempts have been made to overcome the fear of being watched including a privacy-centric phone and apps that store no information on servers for third parties to access. The latest addition to the app marketplace is a privacy-focused social messaging app for smartphones called Chadder. The new mobile app is built by the renowned millionaire, former fugitive and the founder of the antivirus company, McAfee.
John McAfee has developed a new interest to protect people from the snooping eyes of the government and hackers. Just last year, McAfee revealed plans to launch "D-Central" that keeps files and data shared with other smartphones, tablets and laptops secure from NSA or any other government agency. For now, the mobile app is live on Google Play Store, which "aims to protect devices by empowering the user to be more fully aware of certain permissions that installed applications have been granted on the device, knowingly or not."
McAfee and his own Future Tense Systems (FTC) along with NYC-based Etransfr created a new mobile messaging platform that puts users' privacy on top of its priority list. Chadder, which according to the company, uses key server encryption to ensure that messages shared between two users are secure and server operators cannot read them.
"Chadder is an unprecedented messaging platform. We have developed this highly secure system with an extraordinary team of developers at the prestigious RIT [Rochester Institute of Technology]," John McAfee said in a press statement, published by PR Newswire. "Chadder is a fun and easy to use messaging app that happens to keep your communications private. So private that we can't see it ourselves"
The Chadder messaging app is available for download for Android and Windows Phone users, the developers are still testing the iOS version of the app before releasing it in the next few weeks.
