![]() ![]() The Basic tier allows for up to 10 registered users and includes limited storage, up to 30 days data retention and secure voice/video calls up to 70 people. Wickr is available as both a free and paid service and which tier you end up choosing depends on the security features your organization requires. Wickr offers a free Basic tier as well as three paid tiers (Image credit: Wickr) Plans and pricing Linking your phone number to your account can make it easier for people to find you. If you want to, you can add some information to your profile later, like an avatar image or a phone number. You don't have to use any identifying information to create an account, not even an email address. ![]() When you open the app for the first time, you'll be greeted by a welcome page, where you can quick-create an account. For both timers, you can choose from preset durations or customize the duration. With the Burn-On-Read Timer, the message will disappear after a set duration once it's read. With the Expiration Timer, the message will be gone a certain duration after being sent. There are also options to have DM messages expire everywhere: Expiration Timer and Burn-On-Read Timer. If you delete your own message, it'll be removed universally if you delete someone else's message, it'll only be removed from your app. You can toggle this feature off in Settings. This gives you an extra layer of privacy, which can be useful if someone walks into your office and you don't want them to see what was just sent, for example. ![]() When you receive a message, whether it's a DM or in a Room, you have to click to unlock it (this is the default setting). When you add Wickr to a new device, your conversation history won't sync and appear on that device future conversations will appear there, though. A beta version is due out next month.You need to unlock all of the messages sent to you as an added privacy measure (Image credit: Wickr) Privacy For that there is Whisper Systems for Android or Silent Circle for Android and iPhone from PGP creator Phil Zimmermann. "Wickr is an attempt to take a very rich communication experience with voice and video and text (messages) and provide it with some of the best-of-breed technologies for creating a safe space to communicate." "Wickr is part of a new wave of security technologies that is about being user-friendly for the average person," said security expert Dan Kaminsky, who is serving as an advisor to Wickr. "The security of the message stays with the message until it disappears," he said.Ī version of the app for Android will eventually be available, as well as a premium version that will give users enhanced capabilities, such as the ability to send messages to more than 10 people at once and to send video and voice messages that are longer than 15 seconds. The app also offers advanced antiforensics features so deleted files are not recoverable, and it "sanitizes" the device by cleaning files that have been deleted by other apps such as the native camera program, said Wickr co-founder Robert Statica, director of the Center for Information Protection at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. ![]()
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