I don't trust Wickr solely because it is closed source and a US team The government contracts don’t give me confidence in their technology, it gives me the imp

I don't trust Wickr solely because it is closed source and a US team The government contracts don’t give me confidence in their technology, it gives me the impression they sell snake oil to “security conscious” organizations just like that article says. Its like worded specifically to avoid any liability in the eventual lawsuit where people complain that it didn't offer what they expected. The AWS acquisition gives me even less confidence. The standard for less skepticism for me is distributed end to end encryption where handshakes are done between the specific parties communicating This is common (but often ignored) knowledge on darknet forums and markets, where Wickr also doesnt have a good client for darknet operating systems - further pointing to it having an intended purpose of not offering privacy by not prioritizing it for Whonix and Tails Most of the literature about this trepidation and solutions are not on clearnet but you can get a glimpse of sentiment in comment replies here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tails/comments/4z182s/does_tails_wickr_even_work_or_are_there/ https://www.reddit.com/r/tails/comments/4z182s/does_tails_wi... The rest of the literature would be on Tor onion services like Dread, or forums in existing or defunct darknet marketplaces