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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you think of sending secret, self-destructing messages, you probably think of Snapchat, right? But while Snapchat is really good at making casual (or embarrassing) messages to your friends ...

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 ...

With a correction about a Wickr competitor below. Encryption is meant to keep your messages secret from any third-party eavesdropper--what security pros call a "man-in-the-middle" attack. But what ...

Encrypted messaging app Wickr is inviting hackers to hack its app for money. The company announced its version of a bug bounty program today saying it will pay out up to $100,000 for an individual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a pair of explosive pre-trial hearings last week, the lawsuit between self-driving Alphabet spinoff Waymo and Uber over trade secrets got an unlikely, new star player. It wasn't an engineer, ...

A new mobile application for Apple devices called Wickr lets people exchange files and messages without leaving digital traces that could be examined by law enforcement or cyberspies. Wickr, released ...