The Wire

In the US, there has been recent concern over ISPs turning over logs tothe government. During the past few years, the idea of people snooping onour private data (by governments and others) really has made encryptionmore popular than ever before. One of the problems with encryption,however, is that it’s generally not user-friendly to add its protectionto your conversations. Thankfully, messaging services are startingto take notice of the demand. For me, I need a messaging service thatworks across multiple platforms, encrypts automatically, supports groupmessaging and ideally can handle audio/video as well. Thankfully,I found an incredible open-source package that ticks all my boxes: Wire.

There are some other great software packages for encryptingconversations. Programs like Signal do end-to-end encryption, butfall short when it comes to audio and video. Telegram is greatfor sending encrypted file transfers, but it doesn’t handle directcommunication. Thankfully, Wire not only encrypts text, video, audioand media, but it also does end-to-end encrypted group interactions. Plus,it has clients for just about any platform imaginable.

Users have a user name that is identified much like a Twitter handle. Myaccount, for instance, is @shawnp0wers. And since Wire is open source,there aren’t any targeted ads, popups or banners. It’s just encryptedcommunication done in a convenient way.Check it out today at http://wire.com.

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