Our criticism of recently published Wired article: "Wired's Attack on Privacy"

Wired’s Attack on Privacy

New security review by Trail of Bits and new v6.1 released – better calls, better iOS notifications and better user experience!

SimpleX network: cryptographic design review by Trail of Bits, v6.1 released with better calls and user experience.

v6.1-beta.0 is released with support for SOCKS proxies both in iOS (via TestFlight) and Android (via Github releases as direct APK download:

GitHub

Release v6.1.0-beta.0 · simplex-chat/simplex-chat

New in v6.1-beta.0 support generic SOCKS proxies. new UI for switching user profiles. Commits: ios: allow for chat profile selection on new chat...

). You can host your own SOCKS proxy (this one looks good:

GitHub

GitHub - heiher/hev-socks5-server: A lightweight, fast and reliable socks5 server

A lightweight, fast and reliable socks5 server. Contribute to heiher/hev-socks5-server development by creating an account on GitHub.

) or you can try ours, if you use preset servers (it won't allow connecting to any other servers directly, but you can still send messages to anybody who uses other servers): Address: 139.162.173.97 Port: 443 Username: user Password: YJHolWSzTfOny7es

Answering your questions about "private message routing" in SimpleX network: 1. Does SimpleX protect IP addresses? Yes. 2. Doesn't private message routing reinvent Tor? No. 3. Why don't you embed Tor? Tor is great, but not for all. Read more in FAQ:

Frequently Asked Questions

Secure Messaging Apps Comparison | Privacy Matters

This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Simple...

by is the great comparison of messaging apps, but there are several incorrect statements about @SimpleXChat there. Commenting in thread 🧵 below.

Please fill this survey about SimpleX Chat:

SimpleX Chat user survey 2

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It is a smaller version of the survey we did last year, please answer again if you answered then. Thank you!

Announcing $1.3m pre-seed investment from @jack and Asymmetric VC in SimpleX Chat 🚀

SimpleX network: the investment from Jack Dorsey and Asymmetric, v6.0 released with the new user experience and private message routing.

Also SimpleX Chat v6.0 stable is now released with the new user experience and private message routing – details in the post.

In case you missed the news, #ChatControl is back on the agenda of the EU governments:

Patrick Breyer

Take action to stop chat control now!

Chat control is back on the agenda of EU governments. EU governments are to express their position on the latest proposal on 23 September. EU Minis...

We wrote before that strong e2e encryption is the only way to protect children online:

Protecting Children's Safety Requires End-to-End Encryption

Write to the MPs you voted for – every single letter can change the outcome. And huge thanks to Patrick Breyer for fighting this insanity.

Please note: we do NOT control the domain simplexchat.org It might be a phishing site to collect the data (it has an exact copy of our website

SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random)

SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send ...

). We submitted the complaint to the domain registrar (GNAME). Do NOT download anything from simplexchat.org, obviously.

SimpleX Chat v6.0-beta.4 is released! It is stable to use, and please let us know any issues - any help testing it is really great! You can get beta version for iOS from Apple TestFlight, and for Android from GitHub or from our F-Droid repo (it's still in review in Play Store beta channel):

Download SimpleX apps

The final release will be published on 8/14, together with the announcements.