9/13/2023 0 Comments Wickr me down![]() ![]() For those that are unfamilar, Wickr is a company that makes a privacy-focused, ephemeral messaging application. One needs the latter mindset when it comes to Wickr. Do you let inaccessible data defeat you and you give up and quit, or do you carry on with that examination, getting what you can, and apply that same tenacity to future examinations? Keep in mind there is a larger fight, and how you react to this setback is a reflection of your dedication to our craft. Not being able to access such data is no judgment of your abilities, it just means you may not win this round. You can throw every tool known to civilization at it, try to manually examine it, phone a friend, look on Twitter, search the blog-o-sphere, search the Discord Channel, query a listserv, and conduct your own research and you still strike out. If you conduct digital forensic examinations for any substantial amount of time you are going to have examinations where there is inaccesible data and nothing you do is going to change that. I think there should be a similar mantra for digital forensic examiners. One of my mentors from my time investigating homicides told me early in my career that I was not doing it right unless I had some unsolved homicides on the books he felt it was some sort of badge of honor and showed a dedication to the craft. Its existence means there is a high probability there is data on a particular mobile device that I am not going to get access to, and this is usually after I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to gain access to the device itself. Not to pick on any particular tool vendor, but seeing this window (or one simmilar to it) brings a small bit of misery. I have been seeing the above pop-up window lately. I would like to thank Heather Mahalik and Or Begam, both of Cellebrite, who helped make the Android database portion of this blog post possible, and Mike Williamson of Magnet Forensics for all the help with the underpinnings of the iOS version. If you are a Wickr Me customer, we will provide more information in the coming months on actions you can take to preserve your data.Portions of this blog post appeared in the 6th issue of the INTERPOL Digital 4n6 Pulse newsletter. We’re focusing on enabling this in AWS Wickr, too. We also realize that some of our business and public sector customers use Wickr to communicate with individual users outside their network. AWS Wickr helps business and public sector customers address evolving threats and regulations by combining security and administrative features designed to safeguard sensitive communications, enforce information governance policies, and retain data as required. AWS Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted enterprise communications service that allows organizations to communicate more securely, while supporting data retention obligations. We understand the need for our customers to maintain secure communication for sensitive information, and we are working closely with customers to meet their needs with AWS Wickr. As a result, we will not accept user registrations for Wickr Me after December 31, 2022, and will discontinue Wickr Me on December 31, 2023. After careful consideration, we will be concentrating Wickr’s focus on securing our business and public sector customers’ data and communications with AWS Wickr and Wickr Enterprise, and have decided to discontinue our consumer product, Wickr Me. ![]() Since AWS acquired Wickr in 2021, we’ve listened closely to our customers to better understand their requirements for end-to-end encryption. ![]() At Wickr, we’ve served a diverse set of customers that range from the boardroom to the battlefield. ![]()
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