AWS Wickr
Secure communication for individuals, teams, and large organizations.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Snapcraft
Features
- End-to-End Encryption
- Video Conferencing
- Video Calling
Tags
- Chat Clients
- secure-messaging
- conference
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What is AWS Wickr?
AWS Wickr - Strengthen communication security and data retention
AWS Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted service that helps organizations collaborate securely through one-to-one and group messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and more. AWS Wickr also allows you to securely automate workflows using Wickr bots.
Below is a breakdown of AWS Wickr collaboration offerings:
1:1 and group messaging: Securely chat with your team in rooms with up to 500 members Audio and video calling: Hold conference calls with up to 70 people Screen sharing and broadcasting: Present with up to 500 participants File sharing and saving: Transfer files up to 5GBs with unlimited storage Configurable ephemerality: Control expiration and burn-on-read timers
At AWS Wickr our mission is to provide a secure communication platform trusted by corporations and teams, across industries, sizes and scale, to manage their most valuable communications. With business email compromise on the rise and data retention on top of minds, Wickr has built a secure and private collaboration platform powered by the world’s most advanced multi-layered encryption and ephemerality trusted by millions of users worldwide. We hope you’ll give Wickr a try.
AWS Wickr information
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Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $5 and $15 per month + free version with limited functionality.Written in
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Comments and Reviews
Although Wickr is not fully open sourced, like Signal or Wire, it does make end-to-end encrypted, zero-knowledge, ephemeral message a priority. It also has the backing of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (one of the few good guys fighting for your rights online) for Wickr's adoption of industry best practices.
The basic idea is that the developers/owners of the app you are using should not be able to a) read your messages, b) give them to authorities, c) have them in a readable format that hackers could get at if they breached the servers. The way to ensure this is to use end-to-end encryption and, potentially, to have a policy of deleting messages after some time. This is the approach Wickr implements and does it well.
Switch to Wickr, Signal, Wire or Peerio or Threema if you use Facebook Messenger, Google Allo, Yahoo Messenger, Slack or any of the other privacy disrespecting/disregarding services.
Hi, John, I like your reviews. Are you a security pro? It sounds like it. I tried Peerio and I was just told they are closing down. Do you know a good group chat app that uses end-to-end encryption, is user-friendly, has mobile and desktop apps and potentially does threaded response feature?
I use Wire for one-on-one communication but for a group, it's really messy, as you can't respond to a response. It's all in the same hierarchy so who knows who is responding to what. Even with one-on-one, we are lost sometimes.
I will check Wickr and Threema as per your recommendation, but if you have anything more please let me know. I have an active YouTube community that I want to find a free speech safe haven for.
Very well written, John. Unfortunately this information is out of date. Wickr was purchased by AWS (aka Amazon Web Services) in 2021, and it's been funded very well by our Intelligence agency. If Amazon owns it, the CIA and the guy that started Blackwater fund it, and the NSA loves it, I'm noping out of it. I am aware that any one of those things or all of them may or may not be a concern when it comes to how the average end-user is affected; the CIA funding something doesn't inherently make it evil. I get that. But those four things are big red flags that people should be aware of. Also, the service that was very cool, Wickr.me has been killed as new users are not able to register and product support ends for good 12/31/23. Sad to see it go. But my advice is wipe away and kick it off of your device.
Not open source. After Wickr has been bought by Amazon it's not safe to use this messenger
officially bad.
the encryption is a nice feature