Wickr Is Dead (404media.co) 29
Amazon-owned Wickr is dead, more than a year after reports showed it had become the app of choice for drug traffickers. 404 Media: If you open the encrypted messaging app Wickr Me today, you'll be greeted with a line of red text: "Reconnecting..." Below that, in white text over a black background, the app says "We're having issues connecting to the Wickr Me network. If the problem persists, try restarting your app or contacting support." Closing and reopening the app will not work. There is no point in contacting support either. That's because on December 31, 2023, Wickr Me, the free version of Wickr, was shut down entirely.
Wickr Me is no longer available to download on the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. The app stopped accepting new users more than a year ago. And now, even current users cannot speak to one another. So ends the story of an app that while never reaching the popularity of other encrypted messaging apps like Signal, nor those that later turned on end-to-end encryption for the masses like WhatsApp, nonetheless played an important role in the adoption of and debate around secure communications.
Wickr Me is no longer available to download on the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. The app stopped accepting new users more than a year ago. And now, even current users cannot speak to one another. So ends the story of an app that while never reaching the popularity of other encrypted messaging apps like Signal, nor those that later turned on end-to-end encryption for the masses like WhatsApp, nonetheless played an important role in the adoption of and debate around secure communications.
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I just tried to watch that movie over the weekend. 30 minutes in and I gave up. Reading the synopsis told me everything I needed to know.
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1973. I don't have a problem with movies which are slow so long as they're interesting. The previous week I watched Coherence whose first 15 minutes are nothing but people talking. Once I slogged through that things started to fall into place.
To me The Wicker Man just seemed so ridiculous for the fact the constable should have known everyone was lying to him from the beginning. Especially when he comes off the boat and asks the fishermen if they heard about a girl being missing, which all denied, then af
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Cutting pizza with a scissors! Greatest scene of all time!
Good bye, wicker (Score:2)
We hardly knew ye.
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Everybody's moved on to Rattn.
Who? (Score:3)
It's honestly the first time I've heard of that service.
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It's honestly the first time I've heard of that service.
Sure, sure - like we're supposed to believe that!
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I only knew about it because people supposedly used it for organising wife sharing and other fetish stuff. Never felt a need to install it.
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Furniture (Score:3)
It wasn't for wicker furniture enthusiasts?
Hilarious (Score:4, Informative)
> it had become the app of choice for drug traffickers
This is funny as hell if you know the backstory.
https://www.vice.com/en/articl... [vice.com]
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
So true!
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That is hilarious! I had missed all of that.
So Wickr is - er, was - the encrypted communications platform of choice for government, law enforcement... and drug traffickers!
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What? Amazon services... (Score:2)
Wickr, I hardly knew ye! (Score:2)
I was trying to remember what this service was even for .... Some kind of Amazon hosted cloud wiki service? Oh, secure chat! Well, I never used it.
But then, I haven't really dealt any drugs online either so there's that, I guess!
Droppng the last vowl (Score:2)
...is no longr clevr.
(noun) of choice for (people) (Score:2)
Any time you see a statement fitting the pattern "(noun) of choice for (people)", you're being told to stop thinking and to obey whatever diktat comes next in the speech. That diktat is typically something intended to enforce subservience.
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