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I use Simplex to speak with survivors of human trafficking, DV and SA for work. I don’t particularly trust many other ways of communicating with survivors privately. There are many abusers in positions of power, law enforcement, governments, entertainment, intelligence agencies, gangs etc. I use Simplex to protect the survivors as much as possible and myself. I had to learn the hard way while serving multiple survivors of Epstein-Maxwell as an advocate how important tools like Simplex can be. I’m sure that you can imagine given the news as of late that survivors need tools like Simplex right now more than ever. Survivors are often hacked, stalked, threatened into silence and harassed. Survivors deserve privacy and strong encryption.

I don’t know who else uses the app but I wanted to share how I use it and why.

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I use it for privacy reasons

It’s all a fraud. The entire “extreme far right” is a narrative made up by the UK government in conjunction with some “non-profit activist” groups. There is a very long article on unlimitedhangout.com this week detailing the entire fraud. These people don’t even exist. People from these activist groups start the group chat, lure like 10 people into them, publish stories like this through the legacy media to get a huge audience, and then blame individuals on social media for riling up millions of people so they can throttle “hate speech” even though its legacy media pumping the outreach all to get us agitated and to hate each other. It’s truly disgusting.

I’m going to deep dive that later. Thank you.

I read the whole thing over a few days as I had time. These are truly awful people.

Many such cases.

Sadly true.

Echoes of “only criminals use it” when in fact it helps countless people.

Yeah definitely so I try to show people the positive side. 💜

SimpleX is private only now while small, and that is changing now that they have VC funding. The fact is that you are using their servers and their client, therefore trusting but not verifying that communications are truly private.

There is really no guarantee that the server you are trusting is running the same code as available on github.

Oddly enough nostr is more private, since there exist so many server implementations and hundreds of servers to choose from. Gets difficult to pin IP address and messages are no possible to decrypt since too many separate tools are involved.

I compile my own client myself ... off their codebase yes but there's an intermediate step.

Also I don't use their servers not sure what makes you think so.

Well, good for you.

Now let's look at how 99.9% of the other users are doing.

Perhaps it would be better to focus on that audience, asking them to use something with less potential for being bought by some intelligence agency that throws money at them rather than going through all those hops that only 0.01% of users are able to achieve (and this is a generous percentage value).

> that only 0.01% of users are able to achieve

Ah well that's too bad then really.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Maxwell was a big part of the MSM in the UK. One hand washes the other.

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