Appreciating the irony that we've gone to all this trouble to create e2e crypto protocols so that now we can finally trust products like Ring and Alexa to spy o

Appreciating the irony that we've gone to all this trouble to create e2e crypto protocols so that now we can finally trust products like Ring and Alexa to spy on us. The beauty of Wickr is it provided disposable identities and relatively strong anonymity, and fended off bulk interception using an end to end security protocol. The market for it was smaller because while everyone says they want security, I found that the risk/reward of anonymity is too risky for most people. The people I knew who did use Wickr were political staffers and operatives/activists on campaigns, law enforcement, and other fields where they had official recourse to protection. The reason for AMZN to buy Wickr is that it is a trustworthy secure messenger product with a valuable and influential user base, and an evolution of the product without anonymity is probably the case for growth. I don't see it being backdoored so much as just adapted to leverage its existing user base to fill out a feature need in a suite of AWS collaboration tools that will compete against Teams/Github, Zoom, Atlassian, etc.