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AWS acquires Wickr

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Re: AWS acquires Wickr

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Post by txru »

p0rkbelly wrote: post #5
surge wrote: post #3

Probably going to use it to replace Chime. Edit: For those that have never heard of it, its their own IM, that while publicly available, is mostly used internally for company communications, similar to Slack or Skype for Business. https://aws.amazon.com/chime/

AWS uses Slack Internally.

Amazon allows people to use Slack internally. Chime is still at least the back end for all meetings. And in practice, because Chime chat is still supported, many managers tell their teams to always keep Chime open in case someone messages them there. There’s no way to tell who is on Slack vs on Chime.

Re: AWS acquires Wickr

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Post by t-lan »

deadalus wrote: post #9

So, what are some good Wickr alternatives?

Great question. This is pretty unfortunate, data mining secure communications removes much of the value. Signal sold out a long time ago, not sure of another 'verified secure' platform.

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Post by vwem »

p0rkbelly wrote: post #5
surge wrote: post #3

Probably going to use it to replace Chime. Edit: For those that have never heard of it, its their own IM, that while publicly available, is mostly used internally for company communications, similar to Slack or Skype for Business. https://aws.amazon.com/chime/

AWS uses Slack Internally.

For chat yes, but not for video calls (and like others pointed out, some still avoid Slack depending on the user. Devs seem to universally use Slack thankfully)

Re: AWS acquires Wickr

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Post by crmd »

You can be sure there is already a team working on the architectural changes needed to implement lawful intercept and passive surveillance on Wickr. This is what happens when a secure platform gets too big. The same thing happened to Skype.
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