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Happy #GlobalSwitchDay (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

the author literally picked random projects from github tagged as matrix, without considering their prevalence or whether they are actually maintained etc.

if you actually look at % of impacted clients, it’s tiny.

meanwhile, it is very unclear that any sidechannel attack on a libolm based client is practical over the network (which is why we didn’t fix this years ago). After all, the limited primitives are commented on in the readme and https://github.com/matrix-org/olm/issues/3 since day 1.

From your link.

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 hours ago

That is exactly what it says. They knew about security issues in their library and didn't fix them for years. This isn't being ignorant, this is negligence.