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US Feds Are Tapping a Half-Billion Encrypted Messaging Goldmine (www.404media.co)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (28 children)

Wouldn’t Signal or SimpleX be a better alternative to Matrix?

Better how? Signal is more user-friendly and stores less metadata but is centralized and dependent on Signal's servers.

Don't know much about SimpleX

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (20 children)

Simpler to manage and smaller attack surface.

Running your own Matrix server also means running your own host server, database, caches, reverse proxy, firewall, networking stack, etc… Keeping these things running and updated. As well as vetting and updating clients.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (19 children)

Don't have to run your own server, you can choose from any of hundreds of public ones.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

At that point if you're trusting a rando, just use signal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Who are you trusting with what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You're trusting whoever runs the hardware that they're not snooping on you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Correct... So put EVERYONE into one basket... Or split everyone up into multiple baskets...

Now I dunno about your mom... But mine told me to not put all my eggs into one basket.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You're not. Everything is encrypted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

How the fuck would you confirm that? Maybe the sysadmin is running a forked version of matrix that just says it's encrypted but actually logs everything in clear text.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't think that's how it works? It's the client application that has the key for the end to end encryption, not the server. I don't think you need to trust the matrix server you use? I could be wrong, I don't know matrix particularly well.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

...why would they do that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why do people phish, dumpster dive, or social engineer? So they can snoop and grab anything of value.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

There is nothing of value.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Baking powder.

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