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		pfundstein on Jan 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on ... But Signal requires your phone number to work. Also, Wickr is open source: https://github.com/WickrInc

tptacek on Jan 24, 2020 [–]

Wickr is not open source. There is a review-only-licensed copy of a C-language implementation of their encryption protocol on Github, and little else.

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