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Comment by maqp

>Unlike any other existing messaging platform, SimpleX has no identifiers assigned to the users

Lies by omission. SimpleX doesn't mask your IP-address by default. It leaks to the server. The ENTIRE public SimpleX network is hosted by two companies, Akamai and Runonflux. Metadata of two conversing users running on the same VPS can be detected with end-to-end correlation attacks, so pray that the two are not PRISM partners or whatever has replaced that program.

I'd be fine with SimpleX if they

1) bundled Tor and had a toggle switch during initial setup.

2) were transparent about what the toggle switch does (lag/bandwidth vs IP masking)

This is crucial as they already have Tor Onion Service server infra set up, but they're not making it easy for a layperson to use those. Instead they lie by omission. Their

"SimpleX has no identifiers"

only means

"SimpleX does not add additional identifiers"

They don't give a damn about your router gluing your IP address, that's increasingly becoming a unique IPv6 address, to every TCP packet header.

parent maqp 10 months ago

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