Matthew Hodgson, technical co-founder of the Matrix open standard, told us: “This has nothing to do with the Matrix protocol; it’s just an unfortunate naming coincidence.”

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    Fearmongering yet again as Matrix chat isn’t inheritly evil or nefarious.

    Just because criminals use software for malicious purposes doesn’t make the software itself inheritly malicious.

    If this was true the TCP protocol or data encryption would be banned technologies.

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        18 days ago

        yeaah I fucked up, I didn’t read far enough into the article hence why I deleted my comment a second after posting😬

        That’s another poor mistake that I’m gonna try to not repeat

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          No worries, The Register hid the clarification about the two different networks way down at the end, so it’s an easy mistake. I honestly think they need to put that note at the beginning to avoid confusion.

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            I honestly think they need to put that note at the beginning to avoid confusion.

            Agreed. I really hate it when publications add disclaimers and revisions or updates to the bottom of the page. It’ll always benefit their readers anyways if they decided to put that information at the top of the page