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Wire Blog
Company blog · wire.com/en/blog · on HN as Siimtellersecurity
Wire Blog is the company blog at wire.com, writing about security. Since 2014, 106 different Hacker News readers have linked it 160 times, most often “Wire – Secure messenger”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Wire's own pages, mostly to point to the Wire messenger: product, security, privacy and business-update pages, plus its open-source server repo. Few comments discuss the writing itself.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter calls the privacy page the best explanation of what Wire does.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
End-to-end encrypted messaging, calls and file sharing, trusted by 1,800+ organizations. Open source, built on MLS, cloud or on premises.
Most-linked posts?
- Wire – Secure messenger24 people · 24 mentions · first linked 2017-03-30
- Wire – modern, private messaging from Skype co-founder17 people · 27 mentions · first linked 2014-12-03
- Wire – encrypted voice, video and group chats; and works in a browser16 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2016-03-11
- Wire is the only fully encrypted chat app with multi-device support9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2016-07-23
- /resource/Wire%20Security%20Whitepaper/download/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-09-21
- /en/security/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-03-23
- Wire – Secure and private with end-to-end encryption3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-11
- Wire Business Update3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-11-13
- /en/blog/metas-stealth-tracking-another-eu-wake-up-call2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-10
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-09-20
What Hacker News says?
What about Wire[1] and Matrix[2]? Both self-hostable or hosted with E2E encryption. If I'm not mistaken Wire has E2E calls too, but I dunno... At least E2E chat is better than MS, Google or Zoom. [1]: https://wire.com [2]: https://matrix.org/
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on “Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams”Submitted Wire – Modern Communications Network as a story · 498 points
HN discussionWire[0][1] does it according to their blog post[2]. This has an impact on FPS and CPU usage+power consumption, but it is secure. [0]: https://wire.com/en/ [1]: https://github.com/wireapp [2]: https://medium.com/@wireapp/video-conferencing-end-to-end-en...
Comment linking /en/
on “Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing”Submitted Wire – modern, private messaging from Skype co-founder as a story · 134 points
HN discussionI used wire before is opensourced parts of the backend. I thought it was well designed and interesting. They claim to be the only video conferencing with end to end encryption that is opensource. https://wire.com/en/features/encrypted-voice-video/ Has anyone followed wire more closely?
Comment linking /en/features/encrypted-voice-video/
on “Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing”Submitted Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy? as a story · 48 points
HN discussionhttps://wire.com/
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on “Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways”Submitted Wire messenger backed by Skype co-founder launches video, end-to-end encryption as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWell, there are two options: notification option and confirmation option. Moxie correctly assumes that confirmation option (require manual confirmation to resend if key changes) should either be enabled for everyone or disabled for everyone, as its state can be determined passively by the server. But it depends on the notification option. His conclusion is that confirmation option should be disabled for everyone bec…
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on “There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'”Submitted Wire – the Skype killer from ex-Skype people as a story · 8 points
HN discussionWire uses the signal protocol. [1] I am not sure if they require google play services but I thought saw something a while back on their github regarding a fallback if google services was not installed and battery consumption. [1] https://wire.com/download/
Comment linking /download/
on “There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'”Submitted Matrix: Why Olm and Megolm Are No Longer Fit to Protect Sensitive Data in the EU as a story · 6 points
HN discussionPeople are talking about secure alternative matrix/riot, mattermost, zullip... not that i have anything to do with them but Wire https://wire.com is pretty impressive (you can geek out on haskell backend). In small org we have been using riot/matrix and it is great. Works well but it is more like modern IRC. It doesnt have too much ui sugar. Mattermost on the other hand looks cool but had slow clients and there was…
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on “Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian”Submitted ChatControl: An Invasion of Our Digital Living Spaces as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOr Wire. https://wire.com/en/
Comment linking /en/
on “Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger”Submitted Wire – encrypted voice, video and group chats; and works in a browser as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI use Wire[0] now. It offers IM, voice messages, voice & video calls, & a decent set of unobtrusive "silly" features (voice filters, ability to send drawings, etc). Finding people is generally easy but for some reason, it will sometimes not find someone when you type the entire username but will find him/her before you finish typing the username out. The best part is it works well on Android without GApps & seems to…
Comment linking /en/download/
on “How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?”Submitted Wire Business Update as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> the E2E encryption that is in there is not as well tested There's an open $200k bounty for years now. Some "expert in the field" (who just happens to work for not one but two competitors -- yes, I'm looking at you, /u/moxie) posted a blog post right afterwards, about a competition not being the same as a proper design / security audit, and that's correct. But I've seen people try and fail over the years: the crypt…
Comment linking /en/
on “WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities”Submitted Wire – Secure messenger as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes but: Not standard End-to-End and the E2E encryption that is in there is not as well tested. Also, the mobile phone-less use is great but it requires plain text messages to be stored on Telegram servers. I think Signal's (and WA's) solution is pretty elegant. For non-phone related use I'd go for Wire https://wire.com/en/ encryption wise.
Comment linking /en/
on “WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities”Submitted Wire (E2EE IM and Voip) Now on Linux as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSome ex-Skype developers created http://Wire.com with open-source E2E encryption and mobile apps that are usable by regular people.
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on “Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype”Submitted Wire is the only fully encrypted chat app with multi-device support as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think you missed my entire point. I'm happy there's alternatives. Competition is good. But that's beside my point. Maybe to make the same mistake I'm critiquing, am I understanding things correctly? Does the free version of Wire not encrypt messages at rest?[0]. Seems weird to not make the messages encrypted when they're on device. I think this is going to be a deal breaker for people because they don't want their…
Comment linking /en/pricing
on “The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody”Submitted Wire for Windows – Beautiful and Secure Messenger from Ex-Skypers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSince nobody's mentioned Wire, it's not a 1:1 alternative but it's close in terms of chat. I don't think any 1:1 alternative to KeyBase will rise up anytime soon, hosting git and files will be a bit to build up to. Website: https://wire.com/en/ Their backend is open source unlike KeyBase: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server
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on “Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?”Submitted Wire: Secure Messenger from Berlin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been using [Wire]( https://wire.com/en/ ) very happily for some time now. Great interface, top quality audio/video, good chat, persistent, very secure, open source. I'm surprised it hasn't received more mentions.
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on “COI – Chat Over IMAP”Submitted Letter from Signal, Matrix, Wire to UK Government on the Online Safety Bill as a story · 2 points
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