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 ...

GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco. Register Now This past week I panned Wickr, a ...

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 ...

Security researchers have wanted a peek at Wickr’s code since the secure messaging app launched in 2012, and now they’re finally getting that chance. Wickr is publishing its code for Wickr ...

In the post-Snowden world, encryption is cool. Lots of personal messaging apps want to cash in on privacy. Wickr is one of them. It's a free app that offers self-destructing, encrypted messages. But ...

I took a look at Wickr for iOS more than a year ago. It offered free and extremely secure messaging between others with the Wickr app. At the time of the review, I longed for a Mac client, and now one ...

Wickr, one of the wave of messaging apps built on the idea of private, encrypted and self-destructing data, has vowed never to make money off its users — with its app remaining free, and user data ...

According to NBC, the evidence of these crimes against children on Amazon's Wickr app is circulating online, especially on the dark web. Several online threads, police reports, and anti-exploitation ...

Wickr, known for its eponymous ephemeral messaging app, is headed for major changes this morning. The company is splitting in two halves: a foundation devoted to helping activists around the world and ...

On the Internet, a truly private conversation is hard to come by. Personal communications on apps, e-mail and social networks are very much an open book, and they leave a trail of personal data that ...

Wickr, a messaging app that launched in 2012, works much like Snapchat, with missives disappearing shortly after they’re read. “The difference,” says CEO Nico Sell, “is that Snapchat took [some] ...

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 ...