Whether it’s SimpleX, Signal, or even Protonmail, why do so many tech normies seem so averse to anything “encrypted.”
If you have a choice between encrypted and non-encrypted communications, why lean toward favoring non-encrypted? Makes no sense.
A video channel I like watching, called “Predator Poachers,” features Alex Rosen catching online predators who try to lure people who are too young for them to be talking to. I’ve noticed that many of the bad guys he catches use apps like Telegram, Signal, Viber, Session, etc., to conduct their evil activities and trade evil images. (I’ve never heard SimpleX mentioned, but I keep listening for it! It’s pretty much my favorite messenger.)
But when I use SimpleX or Signal or XMPP, it’s not that I’m doing evil – it’s that I’m talking to my wife about plans, or sharing passwords, or griping about something at work, or talking to my brother about politics or religion, or sending pics of vacation or food or a special beer to a friend. Just normal stuff meant only for the eyes of my intended recipient. Nothing nefarious.
I wonder if “privacy” just has a bad name simply because bad guys prefer to hide their evil.
But good guys also value privacy, because even wholesome or neutral communications are not always anyone else’s business.
It’s hard to talk someone into using a private messaging app when they resort to “Why can’t you just text me?” or “I have nothing to hide” or “I’m too boring for others to spy on my texts or emails.”
I guess normies just gonna normie.
Strawman.
Who’s “afraid” of Simplex?
Poor framing, I didn’t even bother reading past that strawman.
Basic psychology is why people don’t switch. They have no compelling reason.
Why would anyone listen you with your condescension? That’s just no way to get people to see the problem.
Whooa, easy there, champ.
I didn’t mean to trigger your hypersensitivities to strawman arguments with just one word in my title of the post.
If you actually read the body of the post, I was speculating on the nature of the psychological obstacle (which can easily be a “fear,” though obviously not in the sense of sheer terror). It could be the fear of change, or of too many apps, or of the reputation of privacy apps as being tools of wrongdoing.
People DO have a reason to try SimpleX – when asked to – but what are they afraid of (if I may use that word again)? And how do we get them to overcome their hesitation?
Yes, clearly.
Ironic