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Dutch & French police take down Matrix encrypted chat app; 2.3 million messages captured (nltimes.nl)

submitted 3 weeks ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The investigation did not spotlight the similarly-named Matrix open source communication protocol.

Feel like there are going to be a lot of confused Lemmy users who won't read more than the title.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

Well goodness. I read the article, fortunately, but it's good to see other people pointing out here.

My initial thought was that this was the matrix we obviously care about. I didn't look at the details to see if these people are truly nefarious and do belong in jail, which I'm okay with, but it was definitely troubling to imagine that something I thought secure wasn't secure. 😬