DHAKA: Being the target of allegations that include excessive drug use, keeping company with prostitutes, and murder, tech multi-millionaire John McAfee is likely someone who appreciates a bit of privacy, report CNET.

So, clearly, he would be involved in a company that's working on creating a private social messaging app for mobile devices. 

Dubbed Chadder, the free app -- released Monday in beta -- is said to keep people's information safe by using server encryption.

"Chadder is an unprecedented messaging platform. We have developed this highly secure system with an extraordinary team of developers at the prestigious RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology)," John McAfee said in a statement.

"Chadder is a fun and easy to use messaging app that happens to keep your communications private. So private that we can't see it ourselves"

Chadder is apparently being developed by a software security company called Future Tense Central (FTC), which McAfee reportedly founded, along with another company called Etransfr.

According to FTC's Web site, when users message each other with Chadder only the recipient sees the message -- the app itself just sees encrypted text.

Chadder for Android is available on Google Play and the Windows Phone Store. The iOS version is reportedly forthcoming.

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