Feds fund encryption apps that some officials say could cloak terrorists

U.S. government funds have recently been used to support the creation and maintenance of commercially-available smartphone encryption apps, according to public records.
At the same time, U.S. security officials and some elected officials have complained to software makers that their encryption software allows terror groups to communicate over the Internet in secret. Some experts have even tied encryption and darknet communications to deadly attacks like the one by ISIS in Paris last week.
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