Hello everyone,
I have discovered SimpleX Chat (nothing to do with XChat or HexChat, or the favorite letter of some dumb billionaire), and it appears being a legit good effort at providing good privacy while retaining “mainstream” usability.
And it has been audited (by one company so far, it seems).
The only concern I have is with regards to battery life (given that it has to maintain roughly as many open connections as you have contacts, AFAICT).
Has anyone here used it? Any opinion?
Simplex is great! I have not noticed any impact to battery life. I use it mainly to chat with my family including kids who don’t have a phone number, which makes other secure chat apps not feasible. I really like that it is nearly impossible for someone we dont know to reach the kids on simplex since the connection process is very manual.