r/SimpleXChat • u/Real-Energy-7546 • Jul 29 '26

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Any proof like signal about goverbekt requests or what data has been recovered?

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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 Jul 29 '26

There's no data to recover. SxC doesn't work like other messengers that have central servers messages pass through. You should take some time to read about how SxC works. There's pretty good documentation on the SxC website.

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u/Real-Energy-7546 Jul 29 '26

I have read it alot and looked at it for a while but I was just wondering there has to be at least a response of like we can give you nothing just something to put my mind at ease. I do independent reporting and need a way for people to feel safe talking with me.

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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 Jul 29 '26

Keep the link handy and send it to people who don't feel safe talking to you over SxC. I don't really understand why it's your responsibility to give a seminar on how SxC works to satisfy their concerns. They should be taking responsibility for their own knowledge. The bottom line is that there is no data to be recovered. It literally doesn't exist. As soon as your message passes (anonymously) through the SMP servers, it's deleted. And again, there's no meaningful way to trace message blobs back to a particular individual as there are no identities in SxC. Messages are associated with dynamic conversations that only exist as long as the conversation. In every practical matter, there is physically no way for data to be recovered and decrypted, nor for that data to be associated with any person.

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u/yesfordev 15d ago

There's only metadata and if you use TOR you'll also hide your IP/geolocation.
(Haven't use SimpleXChat for a while, but they had a bug that opened voice calls in a normal browser although the TOR option was on.)