Comment by dmantis

1 month ago

But it doesn't make Signal bad. If Americans blindly process our messages without knowing what's inside, it's worse than not depending on them, but better than showing your private correspondence to somebody.

At least we don't seem to have things which are close by UX and security at the same time.

Simplex is fine, but still feels a bit raw.

Everything else is either untrustworthy because of the closed code or no e2e encryption or custom encryption schemes (WhatsApp, Telegram, any Asian messenger) or unusable from UX perspective (Tox, Matrix).

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immibis  1 month ago

Simplex is a project by a fervent COVID conspiracy theorist FYI. (Evidence: his Twitter page)

  • dmantis  1 month ago

    And the internet is originally made by the US army (i.e. professional murderers). Doesn't make the internet bad as a technology.

    Simplex is quite well designed. Even if it doesn't succeed, I think we'll see its forks and similar implementations.