Comment by Onavo
10 hours ago
How secure is SimpleX? I saw a lot of tinfoil hat people on Reddit claiming that it's the next coming of Signal.
10 hours ago
How secure is SimpleX? I saw a lot of tinfoil hat people on Reddit claiming that it's the next coming of Signal.
Well, it's definitely not like Signal. The idea of it is to give better metadata privacy. It should be similar content privacy to any other good messenger like Signal.
The developer said he stopped writing code many months ago (IIRC). Idk if this means much but something to think about.
They're getting their third audit right now by Trail of Bits. Maybe it's already done and they're fixing the issues.
The developer keeps getting in arguments with this guy, maqp. Well I suppose maqp is getting in arguments with him. At first I was kind of on the SimpleX dev's side, because maqp came off as angry while he argued and at the same time I didn't really understand the discussion.
But maqp's main critique boils down to the fact that SimpleX's goal and marketing is anonymity, by removing user profiles, removing even random identifiers, but they don't implement Tor by default, so your IP address is an identifier.
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/simplex-workflow/40646
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/how-come-no-anonymous-me...
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/2026-instant-messenger-t...
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/simplex-vs-cwtch-who-is-...