ISIS members use messaging applications that encrypt messages sent between users, and according to a recently published report, they are not only using these applications to coordinate some terrorist attacks, they are also using them to coordinate human trafficking networks, but probably also for many other criminal acts.
WhatsApp Messenger, Telegram or Viber are the applications used by those from ISIS, they sell women in exchange for large sums of money without being able to be intercepted by the authorities during the commission of this type of crime, the applications being a very good screen to protect themselves against those who try to catch them.
More than 3000 Kurdish women are seized by members of ISIS and sold through secure messaging networks, they were captured in 2014 following a raid by extremist militants, since then they have been publishing a variety of messages through which they try to sell them to anyone people interested in buying them.
ISIS sell women at prices exceeding 3.000 dollars, and the messages published on the messaging networks are accompanied by others regarding the hunting of weapons, bombs, cats or even tactical equipment for soldiers, so we are talking about actions that probably seem normal to most ISIS militants.
On a chat on the WhatsApp app, an Islamic State militant group offers a woman and her children for sale. They register every slave, every person under their owner, and therefore if she escapes, every Daesh control or checkpoint, or security force – they know that this girl … has escaped from this owner.
The age of the women sold by ISIS has no relevance in this terrifying business, as they are willing to sell including babies of several months to obtain money to finance terrorist campaigns in various regions of the planet, or the fight with the armies of Iraq or Syria. occupied areas at the time of the "caliphate".
US authorities have blamed Apple for the fact that strengthening iOS security measures can give criminals the opportunity to hide and commit terrifying crimes, and what we now learn about ISIS proves that the encryption of conversations is not the best after all solution to protect humanity.
