Turkey coup plotters' use of 'amateur' app helped unveil their network

Turkish authorities identified thousands of undercover Gi1/4lenist operatives, whom they blame for the failed coup, after cracking messaging app ByLock

Turkish authorities were able to trace thousands of people they accuse of participating in an underground network linked to last month's failed military coup by cracking the weak security features of a little-known smartphone messaging app.

Security experts who looked at the app, known as ByLock, at the request of Reuters said it appeared to be the work of amateur software developers and had left important information about its users unencrypted.