Thoughts on Wire Messenger

I would avoid it:

  • Jurisdiction and infrastructure inside EU and USA, both 14-eyes
  • Contact info / identifiers / usage data / diagnostics collected through usage
  • User data and/or metadata sent to parent company and/or third parties
  • Reproducible builds aren’t used to verify apps against source code
  • Can’t sign up to the app anonymously
  • Forced to trust a centralized directory server
  • Directory service could be modified to enable a MITM attack
  • Only notified of a contact’s fingerprint changing when you have previously verified them
  • Not all personal information is hashed to protect against certain attacks
  • Metadata not encrypted
  • Company logs timestamps/IP addresses
  • Undocumented design and infrastructure
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