☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 3 months agoIs there a reason why Signal is being promoted instead of Wirewire.commessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up138arrow-down1external-linkIs there a reason why Signal is being promoted instead of Wirewire.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square38fedilinkfile-text
It’s based on Signal protocol and it’s also open source. However, unlike Signal it doesn’t harvest phone numbers. https://github.com/wireapp
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPlinkfedilink2•3 months agoGiven that Wire uses Signal protocol, are you suggesting that e2e encryption in Signal is not secure?
minus-squareZootlinkfedilink4•3 months agoNo, what I’m saying is that if Wire still sends the passwords for the encryption in plaintext to their servers, thats bad. Signal doesn’t do that afaik.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPlinkfedilink2•3 months agoI agree that would be a weird thing to do, is there a source for this?
minus-squareZootlinkfedilink4•edit-23 months agoDefinitely search on your own, I was only going based off this. Could be fixed by now! But if it was ever true, that’s again, bad. Not something you would even think of doing if your true motives are “privacy”
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPlinkfedilink1•3 months agoYeah that’s pretty bad, and I agree that I wouldn’t trust a company that did something like that going forward.
Given that Wire uses Signal protocol, are you suggesting that e2e encryption in Signal is not secure?
No, what I’m saying is that if Wire still sends the passwords for the encryption in plaintext to their servers, thats bad. Signal doesn’t do that afaik.
I agree that would be a weird thing to do, is there a source for this?
Definitely search on your own, I was only going based off this. Could be fixed by now!
But if it was ever true, that’s again, bad. Not something you would even think of doing if your true motives are “privacy”
Yeah that’s pretty bad, and I agree that I wouldn’t trust a company that did something like that going forward.