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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.
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frphank 1y ago

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.

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brito 1y ago

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).

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frphank 1y ago

> that only 0.01% of users are able to achieve

Ah well that's too bad then really.