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Is there a reason why Signal is being promoted instead of Wire (wire.com)

submitted 2 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree that would be a weird thing to do, is there a source for this?

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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"

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's pretty bad, and I agree that I wouldn't trust a company that did something like that going forward.