Wickr: Amazon-owned Wickr is shutting down its free encrypted messaging app

Secure communications provider Wickr has announced that it will shutter its free encrypted messaging app, Wickr Me, next year. Wickr was founded in 2011 and became one of the first mainstream end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, until it was acquired by Amazon's cloud services giant Amazon Web Services in 2021. In a post published Friday, Amazon said [...] Amazon-owned Wickr is shutting down its free encrypted messaging app by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch