#wickr — Public Fediverse posts
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The recent announcement by Russian authority Roskomnadzor regarding tighter restrictions on the use of Telegram will cause a shift in communication protocols among cyber threat-actors. We may see an increased adoption of alternatives such as Tox and its variants, Wickr, and more widely used platforms like Signal.
We all need to be staying ahead of the evolving threat-actors; otherwise, we risk falling behind.
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This is horrifying in so many ways. #Wickr was funded by the CIA, Erik Prince, and a bunch of ex-spies as an encrypted messaging app that required no identifying information to sign up and automatically deleted anything you sent. #EFP
Amazon apparently bought it and was SHOCKED to find out it was being used for crimes, including lots of CSAM. I mean, what else could you possibly expect?