The Wire Blog is the secure messenger company's feed on encryption, open sourcing its server, and call security.
HN 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.
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-retention-33d183ea0fb3#.oxksa5yf0
[2] https://github.com/wireapp
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.
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#.2nxtcgm5y
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-and-improving-webrtc-a85be6caa43a
https://medium.com/wire-news/open-sourcing-wire-server-code-ef7866a731d5 if you're looking for the announcement