Wire Retracts Promise Not to Read Your Messages

Seems Wire were simply trying to ride the trend of proclaiming your application/service is hack proof and your messages cannot be read from the likes of the NSA or employees of the company. I am glad that they were called out on this. Seems to be in bad taste that they did not publicly acknowledge the removal and give an explanation.

I will not be using Wire. Not because their service doesn't truly protect your privacy, because hardly any major app (Skype, Facebook Chat) does, but rather because they chose to quietly sweep the claim under the rug and not publicly fess up that they made a claim they could not guarantee with a high level of certainty.

For those looking for an alternative, there are some open-source messaging applications that encrypt messages on the device, making it impossible for the company to read them. Can't remember the URLs right now though.