Malcolm Turnbull, Scott Morrison and other politicians said to be exchanging encrypted and self-destructing messages about the Liberals’ leadership crisis.
In what may seems like a remarkable display of tech-savviness for the political classes, Turnbull, Scott Morrison and other politicians are using Wickr, the Australian claimed, to exchange encrypted and self-destructing messages about the Liberals’ leadership crisis.
Politicians seeking to protect the privacy of their own communication is a little ironic in light of their bid to pass a data retention package that would leave journalists and their sources exposed.
Wickr’s chief point of difference is its security: “Forgot the phone booth – no conversations can be tracked or monitored,” the site claims. Its founders insist Wickr is as close to a private platform as one can expect in a connected world, saving no information to a server and and no data on its users.
Twitter had good fun with the Wickr story on Monday. As one user put it: “I downloaded this app because Malcolm [Turnbull] uses it. If it’s good enough for the communications minister to hide his metadata from the attorney general then it’s good enough for me.”