Privacy @lemmy.ml bachalxyz @lemmy.world 11 mo. ago

Wickr alternatives

Unfortunately the Wickrme app is no longer available as of 31/12/2023.

Does anyone have any recommended alternatives?

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Please note that this is a scam. Wiremin is known spyware. These scammers have infested Lemmy.

o7 be safe.
hmm no one said matrix. i rather like matrix. the whole key and passcode seems to confuse people but once its set up its nice and free... and you can host your own server if youre super paranoid.
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  wait am i an op plant? like is there something about matrix i missed??
  
  Good eye. In another of op’s posts he asks a question for someone to then recommend WireMin. Up to no good https://lemmy.world/comment/6032047
Didn’t Amazon buy wikr a couple years ago anyways? That’s when I deleted it. Signal.

EDIT: as pointed out by LWD, op is likely just starting conversation to have another account recommend spyware, WireMin. Like he did in this thread’s comments: https://lemmy.world/comment/6346585 and I found on another post: https://lemmy.world/comment/6032047
- And before Amazon bought it, it was owned in part by Eric Prince, a POS in his own right. Really, there was no point at which Wickr was known for being anything but bad, so good riddance to bad software.
  
  Woa yea fuck that guy
- Molly as hardened signal alternative
- Yes, they have been shit for years, with Amazon buying them, CBP using them in defiance of FOIA laws.
  
  https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ammn/customs-border-protection-wickr-dhs
  
  Use SimpleX Chat instead
SimpleX is a good replacement
SimpleX gang here 🤔
Fucking rip. I'd suggest signal but it's not quite the same obvi. Uh, Session is also good.
- Haven't tried Session, though it seemed like a good service, until I found it lacks perfect forward secrecy, which IMO seems like a bad decision. I think Berty seems interesting too, but it seems like it might take a short while before it becomes a relevant option.
  
  Also not a fan of Session missing FS. So I replaced it with SimpleX, but it's quite a dead community. The app also feels like something beta, but I have high hopes for it
I also am looking.
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I saw this post earlier today: https://twitter.com/AL_Capone_MMA/status/1741684366084874643

Hope it helps.
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- Thanks!
  
  For those who don't want to click through Twtter's link, here're what the post recommends:
  
  Session, Threema, Signal, BriarApp, SimpleXChat, WireMin.
  
  Just a heads up, that last one is spyware.
  
  There are scammers running around social networks promoting WireMin using what I can only describe as a "call and response" technique, where person 1 asks for advice, person 2 responds by recommending WireMin, and elsewhere they repeat the same mantra.
- It's too bad that it's so fragmented nowadays.

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