WIRED: Neo-Nazis Are Fleeing Telegram for Encrypted App SimpleX Chat.
I don't mean to imply anything, but this post was listed maybe one scroll away from the piracy community welcoming everyone to SimpleX. Unfortunate timing.
But certainly not coincidental
Farewell and fuck off
As a SimpleX user.
God damnit.
Infrastructure will always be used by evil and good. If it exists. Just like a road. Normal people use them as well as murderers.
If a good encryption chat software exists it will be used. It's necessary for normal privacy and sensitive topics between people but those ones will also use it. Nothing to do about it.
I don't really get either of these comments. No one should be using telegram for anything other than a discord clone, and of course the shady turds will gravitate to privacy-focused messaging apps. I mean presumably that's why the turds chose telegram initially, they just fucked up the due diligence and thought telegram was secure because they credulously believed the founder dude who folded under state pressure.
How does simplex compare to signal?
No identifiers, so your social graph stays private.
Also has an independent security audit.
To deliver messages, instead of user IDs used by all other platforms, SimpleX uses temporary anonymous pairwise identifiers of message queues, separate for each of your connections — there are no long term identifiers.
For me, the main distinction is selfhostability (although I have concerns about the majority keeping using the default servers, I could still ask a friend or family member to use mine).
Also I am a bit concerned about them pushing the "No identifiers" thing which seems misleading, since you're still identified, just per-conversation.
Smear campaign
A smear campaign, also referred to as a smear tactic or simply a smear, is an effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.[1] It makes use of discrediting tactics. It can be applied to individuals or groups. Common targets are public officials, politicians, political candidates, activists, and ex-spouses. The term also applies in other contexts, such as the workplace.[2] The term smear campaign became popular around 1936.[3] [Wikipedia[
Telegram wasn't really ever an encrypted chat app. If it were, people wouldn't need to be fleeing it.
Ideally, they wouldn't keep logs at all. But even if they do, they are pretty much useless. The only real piece of information included there would be your IP address, which you can mitigate by using a VPN or TOR.
Only if they have the ability to collect logs on servers they control with SimpleX that can easily not be the case. The server infrastructure can be run by most anybody since it is open source and freely available and the actual software does everything in its capacity to not even make messages linkable. So best of luck.
Why not link the original source?
Was this article funded by a would-be surveillance state? If not, I wonder what David Gilbert's headline will be when he learns that roads, telephones, postal services, and conference halls are also used by neo-nazis.
Why are they moving from telegram?
researchers found that in the wake of the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov and charges against leaders of the so-called Terrorgram Collective, dozens of extremist groups have moved to the app SimpleX Chat in recent weeks over fears that Telegram’s privacy policies expose them to being arrested.”
Telegram has been supplying US government with data on its users
https://www.404media.co/telegram-confirms-it-gave-u-s-user-data-to-the-cops/
Sounds like a virus. Herpes SimpleX? Have fun with that.
I associate it more with a simplex mode for radio.
Different backgrounds will draw different conclusions. Being in the medical field and not ham radio (had to look up what you’ve mentioned) it would never have occurred to me.
I didn’t mean to offend. Nazi ideology can be like a virus and so is what I stated in my comment. A poorly made joke I guess.
Neo-nazis, or any kind of fascists, have no space anywhere. They can fuck off to the next platform, but they can’t run forever