Wickr Me, an Amazon-owned encrypted chat platform, stopped accepting new users after Saturday and will shut down completely on Dec. 31 of this year, the company announced. The decision, first ...

Secure messaging platform Wickr is shutting down its consumer-facing app. In a blog post spotted by The Verge, the Amazon-owned company announced it would stop accepting new Wickr Me registrations by ...

Imagine if the endless cat photos on your Facebook newsfeed weren't just the product of shutter-happy pet owners but instead were being used to pass on hidden messages. Sound like a spy novel? It's ...

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Some big changes ahead for Wickr, the messaging app that emerged in the wake of the NSA private data leaks to offer consumers an encrypted, more secure alternative to mainstream services like Facebook ...

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Finally, Wickr has released its core crypto code to the open source community. The end-to-end encrypted messaging service launched in 2012, long before Signal took off and WhatsApp rolled out ...

NEW YORK, July 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Wickr, Inc., the secure collaboration platform known for its robust end-to-end encryption and the ability to securely operate on Zero Trust Networks (ZTN), ...

Nico Sell is an entrepreneur and privacy advocate who co-founded Wickr, an app for sending and receiving self-destructing messages. If the description stopped there, you'd probably decry it as a ...

Two-year-old startup Wickr is offering a reward of up to US$100,000 to anyone who can find a serious vulnerability in its mobile encrypted messaging application, which is designed to thwart spying by ...