Fascist thugs/ICE want to keep their group chats private for fear that the horrible things they might be sharing are reported/doxed/moderated
Gay/Trans people are worried of being outed/beaten up/killed
Pedos are worried of being caught with their disgusting material
Sex workers are worried of stalkers/police/doxing
Organised criminals need a way to organise crime securely (I don’t know 🤷♂️)
Journalists need secure communication for their client safety and their own
Secure communication is not political.
Instead of throwing away the idea behind simplex I would say that building multiple clients, that use the same standard will make it more attractive. I haven’t found a better solution yet than simplex for distributed secure communication, and it would be a shame to let it go to waste.
Tor for example was built by the US government but that didn’t stop Snowden from using it.
I definitely agree that secure communication is not political, but my concern is more about that person’s ability to break the security or implement backdoors. I’m okay with simplex as a concept (warts and all), but I’d need a different client or at least someone else packaging the software so that they can check the commits before building. For most other people’s beliefs I’m not overly concerned with the maintainers trying to maliciously impose them, but people in the maga crowd have completely lost touch with reality, and giving someone like that the sole power to make a git commit and push a client update that can get people killed makes me too nervous long-term. We’ve seen them literally kill each other for not being hateful enough, and this is a problem that’s only getting worse.
Totally! f-droid has the gold standard on this and tor was also passed on to the EFF giving it more credibility in the enemies of three letter agencies.
Sadly journalists have chosen Signal as their preferred communication tool. Denying more secure and distributed tools a way forward.
Exactly;
Secure communication is not political.
Instead of throwing away the idea behind simplex I would say that building multiple clients, that use the same standard will make it more attractive. I haven’t found a better solution yet than simplex for distributed secure communication, and it would be a shame to let it go to waste.
Tor for example was built by the US government but that didn’t stop Snowden from using it.
I definitely agree that secure communication is not political, but my concern is more about that person’s ability to break the security or implement backdoors. I’m okay with simplex as a concept (warts and all), but I’d need a different client or at least someone else packaging the software so that they can check the commits before building. For most other people’s beliefs I’m not overly concerned with the maintainers trying to maliciously impose them, but people in the maga crowd have completely lost touch with reality, and giving someone like that the sole power to make a git commit and push a client update that can get people killed makes me too nervous long-term. We’ve seen them literally kill each other for not being hateful enough, and this is a problem that’s only getting worse.
Totally! f-droid has the gold standard on this and tor was also passed on to the EFF giving it more credibility in the enemies of three letter agencies.
Sadly journalists have chosen Signal as their preferred communication tool. Denying more secure and distributed tools a way forward.