> But I agree that it seems Simplex is being more deceptive. But both are bad.

Just like in politics, it's on journalists and industry experts to scrutinize projects like Session and SimpleX. Sadly, they've been letting it slide for the last few years.

Hopefully this article sparks some tough questions, especially about SimpleX's architecture, its misleading marketing practices, and the Trail of Bits audit. To make sure that we get an actual private messenger privacy experts should be grilling SimpleX, not giving it a free pass.