{"id":150695,"date":"2022-11-21T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/amazon-owned-wickr-is-shutting-down-its-free-encrypted-messaging-app"},"modified":"2022-11-21T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:26:10","slug":"amazon-owned-wickr-is-shutting-down-its-free-encrypted-messaging-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/amazon-owned-wickr-is-shutting-down-its-free-encrypted-messaging-app","title":{"rendered":"Amazon-owned Wickr is shutting down its free encrypted messaging app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-owned-wickr-is-shutting-down-its-free-encrypted-messaging-app2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Secure communications provider Wickr has announced that it will shutter its free encrypted messaging app, Wickr Me, next year.<\/p>\n<p>Wickr was founded in 2011 and became one of the first mainstream <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/12\/25\/cybersecurity-101-guide-encrypted-messaging-apps\/\">end-to-end encrypted messaging apps<\/a>, until it was <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/06\/25\/aws-is-buying-encrypted-messaging-service-wickr\/\">acquired<\/a> by Amazon\u2019s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/wickr.com\/our-focus-on-end-to-end-encrypted-enterprise-communications\/\">a post<\/a> published Friday, Amazon said that Wickr Me will shut down for good on December 31, 2023. Amazon says the app will stop accepting new user registrations on December 31, 2022 before it\u2019s discontinued completely the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services in 2021. In a post published Friday, Amazon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}