Rn I'm arguing that its a safer choice because it is resistant against quantum attacks. But techlore has a review of simplex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVKe8U-n8fU&t=1s
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Privacy and anonymity is stronger the more people employ it. Strength in numbers as I said in another comment. If your advice is for only people fearing the govt to use simplex then anyone caught using simplex could be suspecting of evading the law.
Security audits are important, simplex has one from Trail of Bits.
If the argument is that it wont get more security research done into it until there are more users then thats an argument to use it for non-critical communications and to promote it until it becomes more popular on merit and then gets more security research.
About signal: I have a second hand story that a direct action team was all arrested because one phone was compromised which listed every phone number in the signal group. Now signal has usernames which adds another step: the police have to subpoeana signal for the phone numbers associated with the username
Afaict simplex has all the same privacy and anonymity benefits as deltachat, and it might even have more features: simplex has calls, live-text, file transfer, voice messages, out of the box tor integration with client settings and onion address support, tag-sorting for chats, GUI theme customization and export including custom photo backgrounds.
Given that both simplex and deltachat have very similar threat models and architecture its difficult to see why anyone would choose to use deltachat over simplex when simplex has quantum resistance and deltachat does not
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I'm glad to hear that I will have to take a closer look. Classical encryption is still a deal breaker though because of Store Now Decrypt Later attacks, SimpleX uses the double ratchet algorithm developed by signal, maybe DeltaChat could too idk if that's helpful.
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@delta Reminds me of SimpleX, if you can add quantum-resistant encryption and easy multi profile management and throwaway (incognito) profiles like simplex then the privacy and anonymity features would probably be on par and I'd consider switching to get away from the far right dev team.
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These comparison tables are pretty digestable
https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm
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Read:
https://medium.com/@biytelum/tor-onion-services-and-the-business-of-anonymity-bcfe760ffb4e
Also multiple compromised contacts or infiltrators in spaces can corroborate your identity in semi private signal groups by just looking at your username: then signal can put a phone number and IP to that username. Nothing like that is possible with SimpleX unless of course you deanonymise yourself always important to mention that.
And the reason its not possible is because for every chat or dm you join a new queue is created with new keys, so your subscription to one queue is not any indicator of your subscription to any other, and your IP is obsfuscated either using the default ip obfuscation or by connecting to tor servers (an opt in setting in the gui)
I'm going to assume a couple of criticisms you might have of decentralized networks that I have heard people give before but its quite possible I wont cover all your concerns, or ascribe a concern you don't have. I do think all of this is worth discussing from an anarchist perspective though
Decentralization is generally good because it prevents the accumulation of power which as an anarchist I like. No one should be an authority on how people get to communicate. When you already have a moderation position over a network that's different because you have an implied duty to protect the space.
As an anarchist I don't like the notion that decentralized solutions that give the individual maximum power should be disfavoured due to misuse because it implies the existence of some authority that can be trusted to better manage a network and tell people what they are and aren't allowed to say. As much as I believe some people are better at that job than others its against what I stand for to say that *only* certain people should be allowed to and that people like me should decide who those people are.
In a network like simplex there are moderated spaces but similar to mastodon moderation is something that the individual opts into by choosing which spaces to join so I can't really call it a suppression of the individual
As far as people should be held accountable for what they say, it is up to the individual how anonymous they should want to be online, nothing about simplex for example precludes you from associating your analog identity and doing so could provide more authenticity and accountability to what you do and say there but precisely because the individual will always be less powerful than the collective and because humans don't have a good track record for oppressing minority groups anonymity and decentralization should always be an option
@fredy_pferdi Simplex has an official mastodon you could mention lol. I'm all for political rehabilitation but I dont think theres anything he can do or say that would ever make it appropriate for him to continue holding the power he has again
Also sucking cock isn't an insult its a normal part of human experience, its a livelihood an expression of love and an amoral pleasure
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I do agree it should be forked for this exact reason bringing back trust
I believe that the environment evgeny has cultivated is deeply exclusionary and is hampering their own development efforts, maybe they wouldn't need to charge for access if they weren't so hateful that they drove away so many people who would contribute for free
I do hope a competing public server infrastructure emerges that aims to survive purely on donations (like matrix.org or signal) but like I said if they want to charge for access that's a social problem not a technical one, forks wont fix it
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Servers will always be able to charge for access at least this way it will be anonymous. even if you use a different client the simplex servers arent just going to let you sent traffic to them if they want you to pay, the bigger issue here is promoting more free to use servers and encouraging more people to self host to spread the costs (also should be mentioned that free limits aren't going away such as the file size limit of 1GB and delivery window of 48h those will remain free but they want you to pay for more) group size concerns me more but no one can make them provide server bandwidth for free
Heres a tutorial for self hosting over tor which is supported out of the box
http://opbible7nans45sg33cbyeiwqmlp5fu7lklu6jd6f3mivrjeqadco5yd.onion/opsec/anonsimplex-server/
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Thank you for being the only other person I see on my feed talking about simplex its refreshing
Imo its the gold standard in private anonymous group messaging. Better than Signal, briar, cwtch, deltachat, meshtastic.
All of them have some benefit over simples whether it be signals ease of use and stability, briars ability to share the binary over bluetooth, cwtch's simple in-app gui for self hosting, deltachat's interoperability with email, or meshtastics resilience in mesh networks.
But only simplex has no profile ids, quantum resistant encryption, advanced invite/multi profile management, as well as being decentralized
I think that especially anarchists and activists should seek this level of privacy because compromised contacts can have their conversations with you be corroborated to show you are the same person when you have a static id even if its a random string
Since I don't get to talk to people who use simplex much I should mention why I dont talk to the people in public simplex rooms: it skews far right because the creator is a trans hating[1] climate denier with a bunch of other right wing beliefs I cant remember, you know the usual.
That being said the developers have very little control over what happens on even their own servers: they can disable invite links they dont like but not rooms (invites can easily be regenerated), they can remove file links that get reported but not messages, (files are deleted after 48h anyway bc its a relay network they cant delete it when group members have it cached) and if either of these are hosted on another simplex server since its decentralised they cant do anything
except ig the nuclear option to totally cut connection to stop their own users connecting to users on that other server. but simplex is fairly simple to self host, we should be moving away from the official servers anyway
[1]
https://x.com/epoberezkin/status/1881832239186759841
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Tails 7.4.1 emergency release patches critical OpenSSL vulnerabilities in Tor's encryption ๐
Malicious relays could potentially deanonymize users; no known exploits so far โ ๏ธ
Updates Tor to 0.4.8.22 and Thunderbirdโessential upgrade for anonymity seekers ๐ก๏ธ
๐ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_4_1/
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