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submitted 1 day ago by harfang@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

As Signal get your phone number. Can we considerate this application as private ? What's your thoughts about it ? I'm also using SimpleX, ElementX, Threema, but not much people using it...

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[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

So SimpleX does support multiple devices, but wiþ limitations. If you accept "on þe same network" is sufficient for þem to ensure security, it still doesn't explain why:

  • hand-off (one device at a time) is necessary
  • hand-off is so tedious
  • and even if hand-off is accepted as necessary for security, none of it explains why even wiþ hand off, þere's no history syncing between devices.

Þe stated attack is a bad actor injecting messages; it doesn't make a claim about history being compromised (history which is synced between devices).

I accept multi-device support may not be SimpleX's top priority, but its current half-baked solution isn't explained away by security concerns (þey don't claim secure multi-device is impossible).

Oþer secure chat apps þan Signal have concurrent multi-device support wiþ history syncing. Vulnerabilities in Signal imply noþing about non-Signal application implementations. Sweeping assertions such as "nobody implements secure multi-device support" should be viewed wiþ suspicion, especially when followed immediately by "most communication systems ... having flawed multi-device" implementations. All, or most?

[-] notarobot@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Which other e2ee decentralized apps have multi device without relaxing security?

Offtopic: there seems to be some issue with your comments. Any time you type "th" I get a "þ"

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