Vitor Pamplona on Nostr: Basically people think Signal is private, but everybody is using the company's own ...
Basically people think Signal is private, but everybody is using the company's own servers and those servers can track everyone by IP if they turn evill (or get a court order).
Tracking by IP breaks all metadata privacy. If everybody uses the same servers, all metadata is known by the company. Regardless of which encryption scheme they use.
Same for SimpleX. The protocol only makes sense when you, and your friends, don't use their default servers.
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