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Wickr is a notorious hideout for pedophiles sharing CSAM. I wonder if that had anything to do with this?
by hobbitstan 4y ago
Wickr is a notorious hideout for pedophiles sharing CSAM. I wonder if that had anything to do with this?
- 55555 4y agoYeah I only heard of it as a place to buy hard drugs.
- mdp2021 4y agoOthers as a user/pass - anonymous, as expected - communications system that was selected by the Air Force of the USA.
- encryptluks2 4y agoAny private end-to-end encryption solution could be considered a hideout for pedophiles or drug trade.
- goatsi 4y agoWickr didn't require a phone number for account registration or identification so it attracted a higher proportion.
- croes 4y agoSo E2E chats in Telegram have the same problem. Every good thing can be used by bad people.
- waynesonfire 4y agoOh wow, looks like Signal requiring a phone number strikes a good balance.
- feanaro 4y agoWickr is hardly the only platform with end-to-end encryption not requiring phone numbers. The same applies to Matrix, for example. That's not a valid rationale or explanation for shutting down a platform.
- Markoff 4y agoSo just move to Matrix clients (Element, Fluffychat) or Wire, Session, Tox, etc.
- mistrial9 4y agounlike say, Walmart and Purdue.. very legal there
- mdp2021 4y agoSimilar things have been said for people who pay with cash. Used by "people with something to hide", and by people with dignity - people who deem it inappropriate to allow being tracked: "people with everything to hide".
- edgyquant 4y agoAny hotel could be a haven for drug dealing and prostitution.
- temp_account_32 4y agoHaven't heard about that but I know people use it to buy drugs quite often, as in the dealer will message you through Wickr, then you transfer crypto payments and they either mail it or drop it off. A breeding ground for scams related to this as well.
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- formerly_proven 4y ago> the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had invested $1.6 million into Wickr via the CIA's shell company In-Q-Tel (…) Wickr markets itself to government agencies (…) On June 25, 2021, Wickr was acquired by Amazon (…) the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater, is one of the principal investors. Checks out lol
- newZWhoDis 4y agoYeah if it wasn’t comped before, it sure was after that.
- nadieyninguno1 4y agoWell, maybe? HUMINT types around the world rely on very pedestrian means to communicate with their assets, so one might imagine it's a not-quite-banal but legitimate(?) use rather than straight-up infiltration.
- post_break 4y agoThis person is getting downvoted, but he's 1000% not wrong. It's bad.
- Temporarily21 4y agoThis is reddit?! Almost!