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I did some basic reading on the Amdocs links, and it appears Matthew and Amandine did not directly go there, but their previously employers were acquired by Amdocs, and their teams integrated with the new company. Considering they left that arrangement in 2017, I am inclined to kinda still trust them that matrix is designed to be private. Do you have any links on the "metadata pissing" thingie? As far as I am informed to date, matrix did not send communication metadata for any given room to federated servers outside those servers who have users in the room?
I'll try to find a link to the metadata issues, but for now I'll just say it's senders, receivers, timestamps, and room "joins" I think. Also reactions and read receipts aren't encrypted for sure.
Sure, "only the various server admins get the metadata," but when you don't trust the admins of the largest and "default" server? That's an issue. Also nothing stops [insert group that worries you] from spinning up a server to collect metadata, unless as I said you host your own separated server without any federation.
As for the AMDOCs connection, this is enough for me to be out, make your own decisions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)
To be far, I find Matthew quite approachable from the official Matrix channels, so far he's given me no reason to be suspicious - and Israel in 2017 was not nearly as bad as today's Israel. Although yes, secure communications technologies from there shouldn't be trusted even from 20 years ago. However, I'd say the matrix protocol is more complex than "but it's from Israel".
Yeah, but then plenty of spies are personable, you'd never suspect Anna Chapman was actually Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko until she gets arrested. Actually they almost have to be somewhat personable or they can't do their jobs.
Though in 2017 Epstein was in full swing (I know, Mossad still denies involvement, but I don't trust them and Jizzlane's dad was one of their top agents until they killed him), the AMDOCs spying scandals go back to at least 2002, NSO Group released Pegasus in 2011, that same company (NSO) is made up of veterans of Israeli Intelligence Corps SIGINT unit 8200 which was founded in 1952 (also known as the "Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps"). I don't trust Israel now, 10y ago, 20y ago, doesn't matter, I'm tired of surveillance no matter who is driving.
I'd also rather have a completely independent messaging protcol, preferably simple - and I am using XMPP for that reason - for almost all developments it'll have to be a tradeoff, sadly :/
Same here, I'm using Delta Chat. Honestly it's pretty great and has all the features I need from a chat app, and it's decentralized and resilient allowing for multi-relay set-ups. It's not a discord replacement, though.
no replacement, but discord is so awful due to centralised, unencrypted data hoarding, that I don't miss it
Yeah I honestly never used it myself, but people seem to want a direct feature replacement without the privacy issues and to be fair Matrix is closer to fitting that bill than Delta Chat. I personally don't need that, so Delta works for me (but even if I did need it, I still can't trust Matrix).
yeah matrix is closer to discord - then again most gamers (discord is mostly gamers, isn't it?) are totally lost anyways because they still use microslop's fascist OS
Very true. Though tbf some people use it for other stuff, it's gaming related but the flash cart for my GBC is just made by some Aussie and he runs his tech support on his discord server (kinda like how GrapheneOS does with their Matrix room.) That's the unfortunate part to me, I'd rather both be a phpBB forum lol.