"It’s not about security, it’s about control" – How EU governments want to encrypt their own comms, but break our private chats

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Data sovereignty. Communication security. Strong encryption. These are the words I heard the most in my day at the Matrix Conference in Strasbourg last week.

An event organized by the creators of Matrix, an open-source protocol that developers can use to build decentralized and secure messaging applications, showcased multiple iterations of how organizations have used this federated system.