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Re: Wire – Modern Communications Network

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Post by ekianjo »

sspiff wrote: post #18
NullReference wrote: post #4

"What we need is another messaging app" said nobody, ever. It looks pretty, but this is yet another app in the long list of "Skype killers" or "Voice/video/text" messaging. It seems like it's the default goto for anyone that can't think of something more interesting these days.

Exactly. Right now, I have installed on my phone: * Standard text messaging app, for almost everyone. * Google Hangouts, which is a pain to remove and always logs in behind my back. I don't want to chat on my phone, it's just a nuisance. (I wish people would stop talking to me through Hangouts, honestly) * Viber, with a single contact. * LINE, with a single contact. I don't have WhatsApp or Snapchat or whatever, but…

Yeah, totally agree, but looks that users always like to see the wheel being reinvented. It's kind of depressing, why fix what's not broken ?

Re: Wire – Modern Communications Network

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Post by hagsteel »

This was probably a big effort from the people who developed Wire.

I'm sure lots of development time has gone in to the product with many difficult problems to solve, so to all the developers of Wire: Good work!

It probably feels a bit defeating to spend all that time developing something only to have people slating it.

That said: I do not think this app is for me. I wish it had a more compact interface (like old Skype for OSX), before Skype became this large take-over-the-screen app, and reading that it might not have video chat kind of kills it for me.

Re: Wire – Modern Communications Network

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Post by bad_user »

notthetup wrote: post #20
warcode wrote: post #2

"Skype-killers" without end-to-end encryption are useless.

If they're based on WebRTC then I believe end-to-end encryption is baked into the standard. Whether they use the standard completely is another question.

Where does it say that they are based on WebRTC?

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Post by trounce »

acqq wrote: post #42
ozcanesen wrote: post #6

Privacy agreements just a word without cryptographic technology background as supporter. Also "everwhere" not means "ios, osx, android". where is windows and linux desktop clients, even skype supports linux desktops today.

And it's only iOS8. That also leaves out iPhone 4 and iPad 2. Skype works on both.

I'm running iOS8 on an old iPad 2 just fine

Re: Wire – Modern Communications Network

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Post by jhasse »

hucker wrote: post #22
bugsbunny123 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Telegram isn't secure? Source please.

http://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypta... Also, messages are not encrypted by default, and there is afaik no way to encrypt group chats. You have to create a special "secret" chat for the messages to be encrypted.

All messages are encrypted by default, but not client-client (in order to make cloud sync work): https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-just-make-all-chats-secre...
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