Wire Messenger - A new competitor to Signal and more?

**Executive Summary:** This blog post assesses Wire as an alternative to Signal, explaining that Wire has open-source clients and implements Proteus (modeled on the Signal protocol) with E2EE using ChaCha20, HMAC-SHA256, ECDH and HKDF; it praises Wire's UX and features, notes server code remains closed-source, and cautions about weaker audio/video protections and device key storage while concluding the platform looks promising but requires further review.