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International operation takes down another encrypted messaging service used by criminals | Europol (www.europol.europa.eu)

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What does this mean? Have they hacked a Matrix server, a client, the protocol, or is there some other underground chat-app called MATRIX?

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[–] themoonisacheese 5 points 1 day ago

It seems it's a separate thing from matrix.org, though if I was to guess maybe it's using the same software stack?

What steers me away from them using the same stack as matrix.org is that a compromised matrix.org server (only backend, if you control the element web frontend you can trivially get access to what's displayed there) still doesn't lead to compromise of messages, so it's either that the server compromise led to finding guys and having them unlock their phones, or it's actually a different stack.