Guardian: He’s pushing to track your data, but he’s not too keen on sharing his own.

Today in hypocrisy: an Australian government MP trying to pass invasive laws that would undermine privacy has downloaded an open-source encrypted messaging app. 10 points to anyone who spots the irony! Article by Amanda Meade for The Guardian Wickr is so last year if you’re the tech savvy minister for communications, Malcolm Turnbull. Our spy operatives say Turnbull recently downloaded an encryption app called Signal. Earlier this month Turnbull was revealed to be using a secure messaging app called Wickr. The suggestion was that Turnbull and some of his colleagues were using the app to exchange encrypted and self-destructing messages during the Liberals’ leadership crisis.

Today in hypocrisy: an Australian government MP trying to pass invasive laws that would undermine privacy has downloaded an open-source encrypted messaging app. 10 points to anyone who spots the irony!

Article by Amanda Meade for The Guardian

Wickr is so last year if you’re the tech savvy minister for communications, Malcolm Turnbull. Our spy operatives say Turnbull recently downloaded an encryption app called Signal. Earlier this month Turnbull was revealed to be using a secure messaging app called Wickr. The suggestion was that Turnbull and some of his colleagues were using the app to exchange encrypted and self-destructing messages during the Liberals’ leadership crisis.

But now the minister has moved on to Signal, which according to security website the Intercept is even more effective in keeping his messages secretive. “Unlike other text messaging products, Signal’s code is open source, meaning it can be inspected by experts, and the app also supports forward secrecy, so if an attacker steals your encryption key, they cannot go back and decrypt messages they may have collected in the past,” the Intercept reported. What is he plotting now?

Read more at The Guardian