Wildly Popular App Kik Offers Teenagers, and Predators, Anonymity [telecom]

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The allegations are beyond chilling: two Virginia Tech freshmen charged with the premeditated kidnapping and killing of a 13-year-old girl who, authorities say, communicated with her murderer online.

But the way they chatted - on a wildly popular messaging app called Kik - has increasingly become a source of concern for law enforcement.