wire-desktop

I just noticed hat GitHub offers a security tab and CVE handling, showing which releases are affected and when it was patched (plus a security policy): https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/security/advisories/... Design wise I’d much prefer the vulnerabilities listed upon clicking security, instead of a page that basically has 2 links.

I keep checking out Wire every once in a while because I _want_ to use it, but as far as I'm concerned, it's not truly multi-device in a useful way because new devices will not be see conversation history: https://support.wire.com/hc/en-us/articles/206998259-Why-can... I was excited to hear they introduced history backup & restore a while ago, but to my dismay it doesn't work across platforms: https://support.wire.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000775549-How-... > History can only be restored from a backup of the same platform. You will need a fresh login to restore your history from a backup. So you can't for instance make a backup of your history on web and restore it on Android, or vice versa. Nor does it support automatically making encrypted backups to cloud storage, which makes the history backup & restore feature rather useless for my pu

Wire works on every platform (you don't need a cellphone to sign up, only e-mail), and they released their server code a while ago as well, and documentations on how to set it up is work in progress, which means that in the future (actually even now, but most people don't know how to set it up :P) you won't even have to rely on their servers, you can easily self-host one. https://wire.com/en/download/ https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server https://wire.com/en/security/

I like it, but what about all the tracking? Things like this: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/issues/80 Then there is the fact that the client acts as a browser that fetches information from the web automatically without blocking trackers itself. This is leaking metadata and actual data.