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Amazon Plans To Close Up Shop on Wickr's User-Centric Encrypted Messaging App

Monday November 21, 2022. 06:22 PM , from Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: A little more than a year ago, Amazon, specifically Amazon Web Services, flashed its stacks of cash as it announced it was buying up the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Wickr. AWS users could suddenly use Wickr's services, and some reporters speculated Amazon could have been trying to make a move in the increasingly crowded encrypted messaging space. That's much more unlikely now as Amazon announced Monday it was nixing its secure messaging app Wickr Me.

The tech giant said that Wickr would instead be focused on business and public sector communications, specifically through AWS Wickr and Wickr Enterprise. The company will no longer allow registrations for Wickr Me after Dec. 31, and a year later, at the tail end of 2023, the app will be but a puff of smoke and a memory. Wickr was worth in the ballpark of $60 million when it was purchased, but just a few years ago Wickr was spouting off about its features that encrypted conference calls, which was a major evolution in the encrypted messaging space. Amazon's other messaging app, Chime, does videoconferencing without encryption. In September, Amazon finally added end-to-end encryption for the data sent to users through its Ring doorbells.

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