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Wickr also hopes to command a premium for its secrecy features.

(It declined to offer a more specific user count.) It's a booming market Slack alone has exploded from two million daily users to four million in just the last year.

#WICKR ME NOTE TO SELF SOFTWARE#

Its Wickr Professional tool will expand the features of its software beyond the free encrypted and self-destructing messaging app Wickr Messenger that it's offered for more than three years, which the company says is now used by 'millions' of people. Wickr hopes to capitalize on that growing anxiety over stored, sensitive conversations. That's an important security step, but Wickr CEO Joel Wallenstrom argues that it's really the software's ephemeral messaging feature, which allows administrators and users to set self-destruction timers for messages as short as a few seconds, that sets Wickr apart. That means only the people on either end of a conversation can decrypt and read messages. Unlike other collaboration tools, which encrypt messages as they travel from a user's device to a company's servers but store those communications in an unencrypted state, Wickr uses end-to-end encryption. Today it's launching Wickr Professional, software it hopes will be the most workable combination yet of Slack's chatroom-based messaging, the privacy of encryption, and the ephemerality of Snapchat-style self-destructing messages. The encrypted-messaging startup Wickr wants to solve that potential Slack-snooping problem. Anything you write in one of those collaborative chatrooms can be stored, and is potentially vulnerable to government surveillance, hacking, or a subpoena in a run-of-the-mill lawsuit. If you use a workplace collaboration tool like Slack or Hipchat, it's easy to fall into an assumption of privacy, throwing around gossip and even sensitive business as if it were normal cubicle chatter.

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