A fantastic video by #mentaloutlaw explaining SimpleX network design better than we do:

Thank you so much for producing it 🙏

We have some important comments: 🧵 1. Nerds love to present information security as a way to avoid law enforcement – it's a cypherpunk cliche – but 1) it cannot be further from our goals, and 2) cypherpunk stories are used by surveillance lobbyists against the right of people to privacy and security from data criminals.

We agree.

But there is no existing solution for using the same profile on multiple devices without compromising security more than we're comfortable with. In time, we will find a better balance for UX/security than now and then what is offered elsewhere. 🧵

https://twitter.com/vikrantnyc/status/1837083333865451538

Why don't we just do what Signal / WhatsApp do? They, effectively, convert each direct conversation into a group. This approach has some solvable and some unsolvable problems:

by @securemess is the great comparison of messaging apps, but there are several incorrect statements about @SimpleXChat there. Commenting in thread 🧵below.securemessagingapps.com 1. Main reasons why the app isn't recommended: Provide a transparency report

It is available online and updated at least quarterly, or if anything changes: simplex.chat/transparency/