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Maybe now it's time to refresh the research papers on Matrix/Riot privacy concerns. After reading these a few months back, I wasn't so sure anymore that Matrix/Riot is what I can wholehartedly trust: https://github.com/libremonde-org/paper-research-privacy-mat...

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Those research papers are written by a person that is (was?) making a hostile fork of the protocol. That is not to say everything in there was wrong, but it was blown out of proportion from my perspective.

Also: they are fairly old by now, and most complaints that have merit have been addressed.

> Also: they are fairly old by now, and most complaints that have merit have been addressed.

This blog post goes into more detail https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/30/tightening-up-privacy-in-...

Yeah, sadly the ‘research paper’ wasn’t updated after we fixed the issues it highlighted; see also https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-s...

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