So obviously communicating on a personal phone is a huge OPSEC risk and 99.999% of everyone using DNMs should (doesn't mean everyone will) keep their mouths shut about it especially in texts/anything permanent or traceable. But here is an article saying that Signal wins over Wickr. I mean who's to say how credible this columnist is and is what they're saying 100% trustworthy. Spoiler. Don't trust anything. But wait you can't lie on the internet! (see: sarcasm)
Anyways. So the article favors Signal over Wickr due to its straightforward interface and its open source which make it "trustowrthy" which is the case somewhat, but like they also say (in another article I read) "don't ever put full trust in a third party app."
I am by no means berating Wickr users or trying to start a fight (discussion is welcome of course), just thought it would be interesting to share if it hasn't been already.
The article addresses another post I saw where there was heated discussion saying "Well in a recent bust, those busted were using Signal" to which another user replied "That's only because the phones were seized and the texts were not deleted" So in the end Wickr has the nice auto-delete feature, but Signal otherwise seems the wiser option. Cheers
edit:did not mention any other messaging services since they were not brought up in the article. Obviously there's safer ways to communicate, but the two (besides ProtonMail that was mentioned) that were mentioned in the article are the ones most commonly disputed against each other I feel like.
Signal is better then Wickr. This isn't news. It's been established. Why would you trust an app like Wickr? They are closed sourced. Idc if they say they have military grade encryption, lets see it.