American spies now have their own app

In intelligence parlance, a tear line is a mark on a sensitive document where all the information below that line has been cleared for release — the not-so-secretive background info. Now Tearline is the name of an app for intelligence officers to talk about unclassified reports. 

Released last week in collaboration with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or NGA, the app is available only for people with government credentials. Anyone can download it, but once it's on your phone you can't do much with it — unless you're a spy. Read more...