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Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty
(www.theregister.com)
Good, as it should for normal people as well
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Wasn't there a speculated mossad backdoor, since it was israeli financed. I dont remember if the thing is open source
It is open source and their encryption protocol (olm) also had an independent audit, but the not servers or clients.
Not just Israeli funded, started inside Amdocs even. Idk if it's backdoored but it pisses metadata to all servers it federates with including matrix's which you basically have to federate with as it's the "default" and even if mossad were spying on that but still couldn't read it that's not great either.