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Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media]
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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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Impressive!
What is that?
What problem does it solve
Matrix is a new-ish decentralized, private, E2EE encryption protocol. It's pretty neat. It still has some issues (at least that I experience. Mainly the Android app is constantly being super slow to receive messages), but it's super promising.
They also have some goals to improve email infrastructure by integrating the matrix protocol, but not sure if that will go anywhere. I remember reading this off hand remark on their blog. Can't find the source.
As the original comment said, there's the concept ifa "bridge" which allows you to bridge other services to a matrix chat. So you could have a discord channel and matrix room bridged, as an example. A ready to go option with bridges is Beeper. But you can also setup your own stuff, as they said.
If I give my Discord chats to Beeper, and authorities subpoena Beeper, will the authorities get my Discord chats?
Theoretically no, all of your messages stored on Beeper servers are encrypted. But they will get all your metadata.
But I wouldn't worry about that anyway since Discord not only has access to all of your messages but sells them to companies to process for AI. So that'd be the far easier and faster route for them.
I feel like introducing another attack surface for a minimal gain inconvenience just isn't worth it. I'll be passing, thanks
If I'm honest, it's not convenient either. I stopped using it years ago because I kept getting logged out of my accounts and flagged for "automated activity". Plus they straight up lie about supporting SMS and RCS. The only "support" they have is connecting it to your Google account.
Yes they would. Thats why Beeper is working on changing to a bridge setup that works client-side and not server-side. Remember, that Discord is not encrypted and authorities can just get your data from discord directly. Do not use discord in any sort of private context whatsoever. I don't believe Discord itself isn't actively using my messaging data anyways
It works simillarly to an IRC. You have a server, that server can have channels, I think it can even do voice. But, unlike IRC, you can also use your server to talk to people on other servers, similar to how Fediverse works - if I have a server hosted on myserver.com, and someone else has a public room on server otherserver.com, I can either join the room@otherserver.com or message person@otherserver.com, all from my account on myserver.com.
And bridges are basically just bots that run on your own server, and by scraping websites/using API of the service your bridging they create a private room i.e Messenger@myserver.com, with subrooms per chat, and the bot then sends every message it recieves signed into your messenger account to the room, and vice versa - anything you send there will it forward to the real messenger, basically allowing you to chat with people on messenger through your matrix server. Which solves the problem of "Each of my friend is using different messaging service, can I have them all in one app? (The app being Matrix client)".
wonderful! thank you