The two recent “security concerns” affecting Signal were an iOS bug allowing deleted notifications to be retrieved by someone with physical access to the device (which affected any sensitive information displayed in notifications, and could be mitigated by having Signal not display senders or message content) and a social-engineering issue which allowed scammers to trick users into handing over access to their accounts. Would Wire have been immune to either of these, is there another more serious exploit that the BND are aware of but have not revealed, or is this advice mistaken?
The second one is the one they’re (at least mainly) concerned about…
A fairly well known German news site that specializes in digital policy certainly published an article https://netzpolitik.org/2026/phishing-signal-unkenntnis-allerorten/ that expressed the opinion that switching to Wire because of this is complete nonsense and pretty much everyone in the decision-making process has no idea what they’re doing.
