Instead of rethinking whether the identity verification thing was such a good idea, after an entirely predictable data breach involving ~70,000 users, Discord doubled down and made it a requirement, globally, to use some of its core features.
Isn’t it strange that so many governments are suddenly trying to push the Online Safety Act bullshit, under different names, over the last year, and that the Corporate Media are telling us that messaging apps are to blame for what effectively are the social consequences of neoliberalism?
PGP has been around for about 35 years, more or less, and the single reason emails are rarely OpenPGP-encrypted is most people don’t know how to use OpenPGP. To get it right, we need to know what asymmetric encryption is, which algorithms and key sizes to use, how to include the correct key in our email signatures and how to make backups of our private keys. OpenPGP requires effort to use, and most of us invariably choose convenience over security.
The developers of SimpleX Chat are absolute legends! Clearly they’d thought outside the box when designing a messaging platform that combines End-to-End encryption, onion routing and distributed message queues. What makes SimpleX stand out is that the client applications are immediately usable, without any configuration. In fact, it’s even easier to use than WhatsApp.
SimpleX has been around for a couple of years, but I’d only recently learned of it from someone who was also frustrated with the absence of messaging platforms that allow for anonymous communication.
