Privacy

32424 readers

526 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

134

Dutch & French police take down Matrix encrypted chat app; 2.3 million messages captured (nltimes.nl)

submitted 2 weeks ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

47 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Archived, if you prefer that: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Bif16

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The investigation did not spotlight the similarly-named Matrix open source communication protocol.

huh

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I like the full quote better:

Dutch police said the Matrix app was targeted along with similar encrypted services known by the names Mactrix, Totalsex, X-quantum and Q-Safe. The investigation did not spotlight the similarly-named Matrix open source communication protocol.

Absolute dupe-magnets.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Totalsex

heh