John McAfee, the one-time founder of McAfee Associates, and one-time wanted man in Belize (pictured above), formed a new business in 2013 called Future Tense Central with the goal of working on new security applications (funnily enough). One of the fruits of the FTC tree is a new app/service called Chadder, which is now available to Android and Windows Phone users, with iOS users catching up soon.
Chadder is fairly simple, and it has but one goal: to secure your private messages to ensure they can’t be read by government agents or anyone else you might intercept your communications. As an early release, there’s not much running outside the core functionality, but it seems more will be coming.
The process to get involved is fairly simple; users can create an account using only a username, email and password, though profile information can be provided later to allow your friends to find you more easily (if you don’t give them your username…). Because we weren’t very successful in getting Chadder working amongst ourselves, you’ll have to settle for a demo video showing how it all works:
There’s not much public information about the security aspects of Chadder as yet, which is not really surprising considering the ‘early beta’ stage that it’s at. No doubt this will come in time.
If you’re keen to give it a shot, try the Play Store link below, with a good measure of patience.
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