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What am I missing with Matrix?
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Matrix starting development under Israeli company Amdocs is enough for me to never touch it with a 10 foot pole no matter its rebranding and move to become a "UK" company.
You can self-host it and there's even a full rewrite in Rust available, which AFAIK is independent of the company.
Element is still a main client and it's the same people who worked for Amdocs in the past.
Everything about it screams "backdoor" to me including a supposed dev of it showing up and talking about how ethical and super duper cool the Israeli company actually is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020947
And
Because we all know bankrolling 15 devs for years is super cheap.
Their history is shady enough for me to not even consider it.
What's more, even if you self host, unless you only allow chats within your instance, your server pisses metadata to any server it federates with, and as the "default" instance is matrix [.] org you basically have to federate with them.
Even if it isn't backdoored through the app (which afaik has never been audited) or server (which afaik also hasn't), or the protocol (which afaik has, but me no trust), if they're spying on the metadata that alone is an issue, and they absolutely could do that.
An Israeli software company which has been caught making spyware multiple times
Yeah... I'd seen some stuff with that, just didn't mention it because I hadn't looked into it too hard. The one I'm trying is a fork of a rewrite of the original server software by unrelated devs. I did try Element, but there's nothing on the server that I actually care about.