Wire Blog
medium.com/wire-news · Company blog · on HN since 2016
The Wire Blog is the secure messenger company's feed on encryption, open sourcing its server, and call security.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for Wire's server open-sourcing and call encryption posts, with users defending Wire as end-to-end encrypted and praising its Linux client.
16HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Wire’s independent security review – Server source coming end Q1 20179 people · 32 points · first shared 2017 · 3 comments on HN
- 2Wire’s end-to-end encrypted bot API is coming2 people · 9 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Open sourcing Wire server code2 people · 8 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Call security – constant bit rate encoding and improving WebRTC2 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 5Timed / disappearing messages on Wire, open source, E2EE messenger2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 6Wire Announces a Simpler Privacy Policy, 72h Log Retention2 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 7Wire Linux client2 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 8Make your conversations safe and secure1 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 9Time to get your username 3a54fd31edc31 people · first shared 2016
What HN people wrote when they linked it
FabHK · 2017-01-14
I'm surprised at your negative take. The article you link is from 2014. They do encrypt chats now, and group chats, and voice, and video, all e2e, as far as I can tell.
My understanding is that the developers sit in Berlin, but the legal entity is in Switzerland.
Their privacy policy [1] states that they retain logs for 72h, and not much else. Only hashed contact info (emails/phone numbers) are uploaded, after opt-in. It all sounds very reasonable.
Your argument seems to be that they're an untrustworthy mess - but I don't see much evidence of that, except for possibly some braggadocio in that old article.
> Check out some of the code.
Yes, it is on github [2], so you can do that, which is nice.
[1] https://medium.com/wire-news/simple-privacy-policy-72-hour-log-retenti…
[2] https://github.com/wireapp
terraforming · 2016-10-12
Why do you not recommend? Hopefully you're not just saying that because they aren't Signal..
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I've been using Wire for a few weeks now and I'm absolutely happy. They recently released a linux client https://medium.com/wire-news/get-your-linux-on-999403a1a4fe#.ju81mo5lm (not a chrome app!) (though I think it's electron).
I'm quite happy with them, give them a try.
Siimteller · 2017-04-07
https://medium.com/wire-news/open-sourcing-wire-server-code-ef7866a731… if you're looking for the announcement
walterbell · 2017-03-30
Wire implemented CBR for their encrypted calls, upstreamed it to WebRTC and submitted a patch to Signal, https://medium.com/wire-news/call-security-constant-bit-rate-encoding-…
tdkl · 2016-12-21
Wire also recently added an username feature[1], where you choose a certain username and don't need to disclose your name or phone number for others to find you on it. This replaced looking up contacts per e-mail.
[1] https://medium.com/wire-news/time-to-get-your-username-3a54fd31edc3#.2…