WIRED: Neo-Nazis Are Fleeing Telegram for Encrypted App SimpleX Chat. (rbfirehose.com)
from 911@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 11:11
https://programming.dev/post/20189129

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bufalo1973@lemmy.ml on 04 Oct 2024 11:17 next collapse

Farewell and fuck off

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 11:46 collapse

As a SimpleX user.

God damnit.

devfuuu@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 11:52 next collapse

Infrastructure will always be used by evil and good. If it exists. Just like a road. Normal people use them as well as murderers.

If a good encryption chat software exists it will be used. It’s necessary for normal privacy and sensitive topics between people but those ones will also use it. Nothing to do about it.

spankmonkey@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 11:57 collapse

Ywah, but it sucks when malicious actors use it enough to bring attention from authorities who will do eveeything they can to undermine everyone’s privacy.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 04 Oct 2024 12:00 next collapse

Also extra sad when you realize they didnt care or investigate those nazis before, but will now claim that they cant do their work because muh encryption.

linearchaos@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 12:09 collapse

Like everything else, if it’s worth doing it’s probably worth self hosting.

anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 04 Oct 2024 11:57 next collapse

I don’t really get either of these comments. No one should be using telegram for anything other than a discord clone, and of course the shady turds will gravitate to privacy-focused messaging apps. I mean presumably that’s why the turds chose telegram initially, they just fucked up the due diligence and thought telegram was secure because they credulously believed the founder dude who folded under state pressure.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 04 Oct 2024 12:24 next collapse

Nobody did any due diligence... They heard the marketing and that it.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 13:48 collapse

It would be nice if the first publicity it got wasn’t for being the choice of Nazis. I don’t like that if I mention to a coworker that I use it, there’s going to be that question of “wait, is this guy secretly a white supremacist”.

todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee on 04 Oct 2024 12:31 collapse

You are surprised that the darkweb chat client has Nazis on it?

andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works on 04 Oct 2024 15:36 next collapse

That’s a good point to it tho. It means Simplex is simple enough for anyone, even telegram pogromists to use. Advanced stuff became user-friendly, so average folks can with some adjustment come to it too.

EngineerGaming@feddit.nl on 04 Oct 2024 16:54 collapse

“Darkweb”? I was under the impression that it means a messenger that is onion/i2p-only. Simplex, while having an easy Tor integration, is mostly used by clearnet.

Vitaly@feddit.uk on 04 Oct 2024 12:06 next collapse

Why are they moving from telegram?

Lanusensei87@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 12:10 collapse

researchers found that in the wake of the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov and charges against leaders of the so-called Terrorgram Collective, dozens of extremist groups have moved to the app SimpleX Chat in recent weeks over fears that Telegram’s privacy policies expose them to being arrested.”

leds@feddit.dk on 04 Oct 2024 13:04 collapse

Telegram has been supplying US government with data on its users

www.404media.co/telegram-confirms-it-gave-u-s-use…

Phineaz@feddit.org on 04 Oct 2024 13:10 next collapse

I don’t mean to imply anything, but this post was listed maybe one scroll away from the piracy community welcoming everyone to SimpleX. Unfortunate timing.

Paradox@lemdro.id on 04 Oct 2024 15:41 collapse

But certainly not coincidental

MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 13:20 next collapse

How does simplex compare to signal?

ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today on 04 Oct 2024 13:56 collapse

No identifiers, so your social graph stays private.

Also has an independent security audit.

To deliver messages, instead of user IDs used by all other platforms, SimpleX uses temporary anonymous pairwise identifiers of message queues, separate for each of your connections — there are no long term identifiers.

simplex.chat/#how-simplex-works

jaybone@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 14:25 next collapse

So then how do you pair with a connection? Do you send them (out of band like through email or something) some kind of key that they then accept? That sounds super annoying.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 14:27 collapse

In person with a QR code

EngineerGaming@feddit.nl on 04 Oct 2024 16:46 collapse

Or a link.

EngineerGaming@feddit.nl on 04 Oct 2024 16:46 collapse

For me, the main distinction is selfhostability (although I have concerns about the majority keeping using the default servers, I could still ask a friend or family member to use mine).

Also I am a bit concerned about them pushing the “No identifiers” thing which seems misleading, since you’re still identified, just per-conversation.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 04 Oct 2024 13:31 next collapse

Amazing how we never get these headlines...

"PC gamers are fleeing windows to Linux because microshit is a creep"

arefx@lemmy.ml on 04 Oct 2024 15:24 collapse

Well most windows users aren’t using it to organize neonazis or sell drugs (which is at least half of telegrams users) so maybe that’s why

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 04 Oct 2024 15:30 collapse

🤡 level understanding of the situation here

mosiacmango@lemm.ee on 04 Oct 2024 15:49 collapse

How are Windows users and neo nazis alike in your analogy?

BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca on 04 Oct 2024 16:10 collapse

There’s no analogy, because windows users are not fleeing.

I read it as a “wish for people to get fed up with windows” comment, and not a “windows users are nazis” comment.

mosiacmango@lemm.ee on 04 Oct 2024 17:11 collapse

Wow. I mean, Linux has a heavy fanbase here, but I’ve never seen someone shoehorn a discussion of Microsoft vs Linux into a thread about Nazis out of the blue.

Impressive.

dinckelman@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 14:34 next collapse

Neo-nazis, or any kind of fascists, have no space anywhere. They can fuck off to the next platform, but they can’t run forever

celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 04 Oct 2024 16:09 collapse

All encrypted chat apps are one strong-arm subpoena away from sharing their logs with law enforcement.

semperverus@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2024 16:20 collapse