Twitter had good fun with the Wickr story on Monday. Politicians seeking to protect the privacy of their own communication is a little ironic in light of their bid to pass a data retention package that would leave journalists and their sources exposed.
At the same time, it also offered a US $100,000 bounty for anyone who could find vulnerabilities that would significant impact its users.Īll messages and transactions are secured with military-grade encryption, then decrypted locally on the device targeted – making it perfect, perhaps, for drug dealers and people out to be unfaithful to either their partners or their party leaders. Its founders insist Wickr is as close to a private platform as one can expect in a connected world, saving no information to a server and and no data on its users.Īfter revelations in January last year that the personal details of 4.6 million Snapchat users had been stolen from the cloud, Wickr experienced 50% growth. Wickr’s chief point of difference is its security: “Forgot the phone booth – no conversations can be tracked or monitored,” the site claims. You can set and reset your “destruction” settings to any window you fancy within those parameters – but after it’s passed, the message is no longer available: to anyone, apparently. “Add graffiti, moustaches, top hats, black helicopters, cat masks, explosions and filters to your photos,” trills the website’s homepage.īut while Snapchat makes its missives available for up to 10 seconds, Wickr users can send text messages, pictures, videos, audio files and documents that last for as little as one second, and up to five days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds. Launched in 2012 by security experts, the app functions similarly to the more popular Snapchat, but without the levity that comes with a goofy ghost logo and the thrill that comes with the possibility of being exposed to a stranger’s genitalia at any moment. In what may seems like a remarkable display of tech-savviness for the political classes, Turnbull, Scott Morrison and other politicians are using Wickr, the Australian claimed, to exchange encrypted and self-destructing messages about the Liberals’ leadership crisis. Stay connected across platforms Pick up your conversations on any of your devices, anywhere you go, any time.Ĭommunications minister Malcolm Turnbull and other politicians whose names were bandied about in last month’s attempted leadership spill are reported to be using a secure messaging app called Wickr. No one else can retrieve your data, including Wickr. Control your privacy You’re always in control of who has access to your messages and how long. Wickr does not collect or has access to your data. Wickr Me This is a collection of questions and answers that will help you with Wickr Me! Getting Started Here are articles that can help you get up and running using Wickr. Wickr Pro These articles are meant for our Wickr Pro platform, and do not apply to the Wickr Messenger app.
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