THE leadership contenders for the prime ministership, Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull, are using a secret messaging service to communicate, in which their correspondence self-destructs.
Turnbull and Morrison, along with other MPs like Alex Hawke, have been using a social media app called Wickr to discuss the leadership crisis and any movement in numbers.
Wickr has private, encrypted and self-destructing data and files sent over the service are “shredded” in a cyber sense because there is no trace of them.
Wickr has been the preferred method of communication among most behind the February 9 leadership spill, and is being used to discuss strategy and Tony Abbott’s performance.
Politicians adopted the app because they were concerned all other correspondence, including texts and emails, could be traced, copied or was insecure.
The US government has been unsuccessful in trying to hack into the app. Similar to snapchat, there is a “default destruction” time of between a few seconds to six days after the message is read. If a screenshot of the communication is taken, the user is advised.
Diary downloaded Wickr and, sure enough, was able to locate Turnbull among its users. But I won’t reveal his codename
here you go,
from the Australian newspaper interesting article about Wickr (not a leftie paper)
