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HYDERABAD: Konakalla Subrahmanyam alias Omer, who was arrested recently by the Hyderabad Special Investigation Team (SIT) for having links with Islamic State, was allegedly influenced by reading three books on Islam.

In his confessional statement, the 24-year-old Omer said he had met one Abdul Shukur, who worked in a madrasa in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh and gifted him three booksShrushtini Kaadu, Shrushti Kartanau Poojinchu, O Manishi Nee Shrushti Kartanu Gurtinchu and Life History of Prophet Mohammed and Laailaahailla-Illaihu Mahummadur - Rasoolu-Illahwhich influenced him to convert to Islam.

I got circumcision (Kathana) at Machilipatnam with the help of Dr Chand Pasha. I also attended prayers at Tabligh Jamath Masjid there. Later, I attended Tablig Jamat at Siddipur in Gujarat where I met one Mohammed Shafi of Hyderabad. I underwent training in rituals at Darul-ul-Uloom madrasa for nine months at Khali village near Siddipur, he told investigators.

Omer also allegedly assisted a Srinagar youth in collecting funds in Hyderabad. In May, Mohammed Amir of Islamic Global School of Srinagar told him that they wanted to visit the city to collect donations for his school. Omer, born and brought up in Krishna district, came in contact with one Abu Qahafa Al-Hindi Waseem, a resident of Saudi Arabia, through an app. He also contacted Abu Muhammad of Pakistan, Abudl Jaleel Oyelese of Nigeria, Aidi Sumaili of Johannesburg and Ismail Sha Sahil of Pakistan on Facebook.

The investigators have obtained Omers Facebook messenger details from his mobile phone in which he had conversation with one Ismail of Pakistan on June 7, 2016 regarding Moulana Masood Azhar, dreaded Pak terrorist, said sources.

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A bill has been submitted to the Russian parliament which would require social networks and messenger services to remove defamatory statements or comments deemed to promote war or national, racial and religious strife.

If passed, the law would come into force on January 1, 2018 and would compel social networking sites to remove incendiary comments within 24 hours of receiving a complaint or face a fine of 30 to 50 million roubles ($495,000 to $825,000).

The draft bill, submitted by members of the ruling United Russia party, also stipulates that all social networks and messaging services with over 2 million registered users in Russia open a representative office in the country.

In recent years the Russian parliament has passed a number of restrictions on social media and online publishers including a 2016 law commonly referred to as Yarovaya law (named after one of its authors) which requires telecommunications and internet companies to retain copies of all content and communications for six months, including text messages, voice, data and images.

Freedom of expression advocates have described these raft of laws as draconian attempts to limit free speech online.

Dozens of Russians are believed to have been arrested and even imprisoned for their posts on social media.

An explanatory note submitted with the current bill states that it seeks to preserve the informational function of social networking sites, but prevent them from being used for illegal means.

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Facebook has a new addition to its Marketplace where people post bicycles, guitars, and other goods for sale.

The social networking titan said Friday that it is now testing online ads for the Craigslist-like service, similar to what they would see in Facebook's core newsfeed.

Currently, only a small percentage of U.S. users will see the ads, which resemble the product listings in Marketplace, said Mike Manning, a Facebook spokesperson about the companys monetization efforts. The ads are labeled with the advertisers name along with the word sponsored to distinguish them from other Marketplace postings, he said.

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The ads will only be shown in the mobile version of Facebook and not on the desktop computer version, said Manning.

Facebook ( fb ) debuted Marketplace in October as a way to expand beyond the companys primary social networking service. Facebook does not handle transactions via Marketplace, and instead acts as a facilitator between buyers and sellers who handle the transactions and delivery of items themselves.

By testing ads on Marketplace, Facebook is attempting to expand its multi-billion dollar advertising business, which had $7.9 billion in sales in its latest quarter . People posted over 18 million items on Marketplace in May alone, Manning said, which indicates that many people are using the service.

Manning declined to say which third-party advertisers are part of the trial, but he said they currently run advertising campaigns across other Facebook services, like the core service and the photo-sharing app Instagram.

Facebook is not charging advertisers during the test, which is intended to see how successful the ads are. Manning said the test will run for the foreseeable future, and that it's too early to tell if ads will become a permanent addition to Marketplace.

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Some Facebook users will now be able to create their own GIFs using the camera function in the social networking giant's app.

Facebook is testing a built-in GIF creator in its iOS app with some users. The website The Next Web was the first to spot the app update on Friday, noting that the function lets you create short, looping GIFs that last just a few seconds.

Users can access the feature in the app's camera mode, where they have the choice between a "normal" or "GIF" tab at the top of the screen. The GIF function will also offer access to Facebook's wide range of effects (such as augmented reality masks and animations) and filters that were already available in the normal camera function. The new function follows last month's full rollout of a GIF comment button on Facebook that allows users to search an online library of existing GIFs and post them directly in Facebook's comments sections.

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Facebook-owned Instagram already has the two-year-old Boomerang feature, which allows users to create short, looping videos. Earlier this year, rival Snapchat introduced its own Loop feature for creating looping videos up to 10 seconds long. That new feature from Snapchat was the rare example of parent Snap Inc.'s ephemeral messaging service rolling out a copy-cat of something already available from either Instagram or Facebook, rather than the other way around .

Either way, now Facebook has joined the build-your-own GIF party, but its new feature does have limits. Notably, The Verge points out that Facebook's new GIF creations are primarily for use within Facebook's own platform, as they are only available to share on users' Facebook pagesor in Facebook's Stories feature for sharing feeds of photos and videosand they can only be saved as videos.

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SecureTribe is an advanced social network that lets users to create two distinct kinds of content sharing groups: private tribes that protect content with end-to-end encryption, and public tribes that can be accessed and enjoyed by anyone. The unique new app is available now from the App Store.

Cupertino, CA (PRWEB) July 13, 2017

Families, friends, bands, artists, co-workers, teams, fraternities, and all other groups of any size that want an innovative, easy-to-use and extremely secure way to share content, can now head to the App Store and download the unique new app SecureTribe.

Developed by Just Two Dudes, SecureTribe is an advanced social network that lets users create two kinds of content sharing groups, which the app refers to as "tribes": private tribes and public tribes.

Private tribes secure all content such as photos and HD videos (up to 1280px) with extremely strong encryption, which can only be accessed by authorized users who have a unique decryption key on their device. Furthermore, there no risk of content from one private tribe leaking to another. In fact, private tribes aren't even listed anywhere in the app or online, and so their very existence is undiscoverable.

Public tribes allow users to share content with anyone within the global SecureTribe community. For example, nature lovers can openly share pictures and videos of their favorite scenes, artists can showcase their work to a worldwide audience, sports teams can display videos of great performances, and so on.

Users can easily create both public and private tribes, in order to separate their personal and professional lives. They can also:

"Unlike other secure content apps that are cumbersome and complicated for users who aren't information security professionals, SecureTribe is remarkably simple, easy and fast, and is designed with a beautiful interface to share life's memories and moments with friends, co-workers, family, associates, and anyone else in their tribe," commented Steven Carlsonof Just Two Dudes. "Essentially, SecureTribe is a new take on how a social media photo and video sharing service should truly work!"

SecureTribe is available now from the App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/app/securetribe/id1072860410

For additional app information including FAQs, visit https://www.securetribeapp.com.

A review of SecureTribe has already been featured on Gizmo Edition, read more at: http://www.gizmoeditor.com/2017/06/new-app-locks-shared-photos.html

For all other information or media inquiries, contact Mark Johnson on behalf of Just Two Dudes Ltd. at +1 408 757 0156 or press (at)appshout(dot)com.

About Just Two Dudes

Based in Virginia, USA, Just Two Dudes was founded by Steven Carlson.

Steven is a talented and experienced software expert, with a varied career including serving in the United States Navy as a Corpsman (medic) training to be attached to a Search and Rescue SH-60 Helicopter, during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Steven started his first computer business at the age of 12 and went on to write a Windows security program used by Arizona State University in their computer labs at the age of 14. His software has been reviewed in numerous computer magazines, all with favorable endorsements. He is accomplished in Perl scripting, Objective-C programming, network security, Cisco firewall configuration, server load balancing techniques, Linux server administration, among others.

View the full Press Release in the appshout! Newsroom at: http://appshout.d.pr/7BTS0

For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/appshout/securetribe/prweb14505817.htm

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