What specifically motivated you to create Wickr?
#WICKR ME AND SKYPE ANDROID#
Screenshot of the Wickr Android app, courtesy of Wickr We're using all open-source encryption, but we bind each message to the device, so if the NSA or anyone else were to crack a message in 50 or 200 years, they wouldn't be able to read it. I actually don't believe they have, but we operated on that assumption and built products that could withstand the breaking of the math. We've already made the assumption that the NSA has broken all the math. With what Wickr is doing, is this a cause for concern?
MOTHERBOARD: Several weeks ago there were reports that the NSA was particularly adept at decrypting secure communications.
We also talked about why businesses have had to step in and create a nascent privacy market, and how Wickr's work calls to mind Tristero, the secret postal service in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. Wickr co-founder Nicol Sell and I spoke over the phone about the company's recent Android app launch, which now brings the service to 90 percent of all smartphone users.
The majority of Wickr's users can enjoy the app for free, while premium users pay a price that finances the company's mass privacy offerings. Striving for total encrypted security, Wickr does not collect data, and allows users to set all electronic communications to self-destruct anywhere from one second to five days. Somewhere between the motivations of these for-profit privacy companies and lies Wickr, an app created by a group of security experts.
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