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Matrix? No, thanks. — Hackea documentació (hackea.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by tad_lispy@europe.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The article alleges that Matrix:

has links to Israeli intelligence.
sends a lot of sensitive data to matrix.org servers, even when Synapse is self-hosted.

Is this information accurate?

To be clear, I'm not saying Matrix is bad. I'm still using it. I just want to know more about it and who's running the show, and hear other people's opinions and arguments. Thanks for all the insightful comments.

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[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Libre software doesn't mean we control what other people do with their devices. Run it on your devices. The App Store and Google Play Store is not libre. Get it yourself. Apps should have reproducible builds. Everything there misses the point of my original comment.

[–] tad_lispy@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, we will have much success converting people from WhatsApp and shit by telling them to run their own servers /s. If a non technical friend asks me what to use instead and I'll advise them to use Matrix, you can be sure they'll go to app store, install Element and register at matrix.org. So I do want to know if it's operated by Mossad before I send my friends there.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If your friend's hiding from Mossad, I think they'll know to get it from F-Droid and turn on end-to-end encryption.