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Element has signed an open letter to European leaders alongside other organisations.
The Danish Presidency’s CSA proposal risks adding backdoors and client-side scanning – undermining encryption, security, and trust across Europe.
Strong encryption protects everyone. Weakening it protects no one.
The Danish Presidency’s CSA proposal risks adding backdoors and client-side scanning – undermining encryption, security, and trust across Europe.
Strong encryption protects everyone. Weakening it protects no one.
Element signs Chat Control open letter
Element has joined other European organisations in an open letter to European leaders on the latest developments regarding Chat Control.
element.io
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Element has signed an open letter to European leaders alongside other organisations.
The Danish Presidency’s CSA proposal risks adding backdoors and client-side scanning – undermining encryption, security, and trust across Europe.
Strong encryption protects everyone. Weakening it protects no one.
The Danish Presidency’s CSA proposal risks adding backdoors and client-side scanning – undermining encryption, security, and trust across Europe.
Strong encryption protects everyone. Weakening it protects no one.
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🚀 We’re pleased to showcase the work of our summer intern, Skye, who made a big impact with their work on encrypted state events.
The blog post breaks down the project in detail.
element.io/blog/hiding-...
The blog post breaks down the project in detail.
element.io/blog/hiding-...
Hiding room metadata from servers
Every year, Element takes on a small number of summer interns to work on various research and development projects. Internships are a significant part of our culture, and ~20% of the current Element e...
element.io
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🚀 We’re pleased to showcase the work of our summer intern, Skye, who made a big impact with their work on encrypted state events.
The blog post breaks down the project in detail.
element.io/blog/hiding-...
The blog post breaks down the project in detail.
element.io/blog/hiding-...
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The results of a 2 day hackathon (1 hour of demos!), an official Matrix server for the European Commission, and the Trust & Safety Working Group in Motion.
That and much more happened This Week In Matrix
matrix.org/blog/2025/09...
That and much more happened This Week In Matrix
matrix.org/blog/2025/09...
September 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The results of a 2 day hackathon (1 hour of demos!), an official Matrix server for the European Commission, and the Trust & Safety Working Group in Motion.
That and much more happened This Week In Matrix
matrix.org/blog/2025/09...
That and much more happened This Week In Matrix
matrix.org/blog/2025/09...
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We’ve now published the details of the security issues which we addressed in Monday’s coordinated security release of Matrix: read all about Project Hydra at matrix.org/blog/2025/08... and please upgrade your servers and rooms where applicable.
Project Hydra: Improving state resolution in Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
matrix.org
August 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We’ve now published the details of the security issues which we addressed in Monday’s coordinated security release of Matrix: read all about Project Hydra at matrix.org/blog/2025/08... and please upgrade your servers and rooms where applicable.
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Element's backend team has published a great postmortem of their work recovering the matrix.org postgres database from corruption over the last few weeks.
For those interested in the work Element does to keep matrix.org running, check out matrix.org/blog/2025/07...
For those interested in the work Element does to keep matrix.org running, check out matrix.org/blog/2025/07...
Matrix.org
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
matrix.org
July 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Element's backend team has published a great postmortem of their work recovering the matrix.org postgres database from corruption over the last few weeks.
For those interested in the work Element does to keep matrix.org running, check out matrix.org/blog/2025/07...
For those interested in the work Element does to keep matrix.org running, check out matrix.org/blog/2025/07...
So a man just walked out of this door revealing an office with a desk. Not sure you need the sign tbh.
It’s train station, how exciting could it be?
It’s train station, how exciting could it be?
July 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
So a man just walked out of this door revealing an office with a desk. Not sure you need the sign tbh.
It’s train station, how exciting could it be?
It’s train station, how exciting could it be?
It’s happening. This is not a drill. The Door has been Opened. Repeat The Door has been Opened. Assemble!
June 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
It’s happening. This is not a drill. The Door has been Opened. Repeat The Door has been Opened. Assemble!
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⚠️ If you’re running an outdated version of Synapse, you’re putting your organisation at risk.
🚨 Version 1.98.0 of Synapse (or older) exposes you to critical vulnerabilities, compliance failures and security risks.
🔐 Get up to date.
🚨 Version 1.98.0 of Synapse (or older) exposes you to critical vulnerabilities, compliance failures and security risks.
🔐 Get up to date.
Running outdated versions of Synapse is a problem
If you’re still using the old Apache-licensed Synapse version 1.98.0 or older, you’re running unsupported, vulnerable software.
element.io
February 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
⚠️ If you’re running an outdated version of Synapse, you’re putting your organisation at risk.
🚨 Version 1.98.0 of Synapse (or older) exposes you to critical vulnerabilities, compliance failures and security risks.
🔐 Get up to date.
🚨 Version 1.98.0 of Synapse (or older) exposes you to critical vulnerabilities, compliance failures and security risks.
🔐 Get up to date.
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The award goes to...
👏 Congratulations to Amandine Le Pape for winning the Business & Impact Award at #EOSA2025! 🚀
🤝Presented by Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of Mozilla and a pioneer in open internet advocacy. #FOSS #GovTech
#OpenSource #TechForGood
👏 Congratulations to Amandine Le Pape for winning the Business & Impact Award at #EOSA2025! 🚀
🤝Presented by Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of Mozilla and a pioneer in open internet advocacy. #FOSS #GovTech
#OpenSource #TechForGood
January 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The award goes to...
👏 Congratulations to Amandine Le Pape for winning the Business & Impact Award at #EOSA2025! 🚀
🤝Presented by Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of Mozilla and a pioneer in open internet advocacy. #FOSS #GovTech
#OpenSource #TechForGood
👏 Congratulations to Amandine Le Pape for winning the Business & Impact Award at #EOSA2025! 🚀
🤝Presented by Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of Mozilla and a pioneer in open internet advocacy. #FOSS #GovTech
#OpenSource #TechForGood
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🚨Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail if built on the community version of Synapse.
Just as a suspension bridge has a weight limit and will collapse if you exceed it - the same goes for community Synapse.
Deployments supporting millions of users need Synapse Pro.
Just as a suspension bridge has a weight limit and will collapse if you exceed it - the same goes for community Synapse.
Deployments supporting millions of users need Synapse Pro.
Scaling to millions of users requires Synapse Pro
Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail if built on the community version of Synapse. Huge deployments need a different architecture, which is what Synapse Pro delivers.
element.io
January 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🚨Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail if built on the community version of Synapse.
Just as a suspension bridge has a weight limit and will collapse if you exceed it - the same goes for community Synapse.
Deployments supporting millions of users need Synapse Pro.
Just as a suspension bridge has a weight limit and will collapse if you exceed it - the same goes for community Synapse.
Deployments supporting millions of users need Synapse Pro.
Huge congrats to the team. This fundamentally changes what you can do with a large scale Matrix server.
💥Boom! Synapse Pro rewrites the economics of nation-scale @matrix.org deployments with high density multi-tenancy, high availability and elastic horizontal scaling.
Synapse Pro is the most cost-efficient Matrix backend available for large-scale use and saves nationwide deployments millions.
Synapse Pro is the most cost-efficient Matrix backend available for large-scale use and saves nationwide deployments millions.
Synapse Pro slashes costs for running nation-scale Matrix deployments
Synapse Pro is Element’s best practice Matrix homeserver. It transforms the performance and economics of huge public sector deployments.
element.io
December 10, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Huge congrats to the team. This fundamentally changes what you can do with a large scale Matrix server.
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US senators urge @deptofdefense.bsky.social to expand the use of the @matrix.org open standard in light of the #SaltTyphoon attack on the US telephone network.
Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix
Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push the Defense Department to expand the use of Matrix to deliver sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interoperable communications.
element.io
December 5, 2024 at 10:54 AM
US senators urge @deptofdefense.bsky.social to expand the use of the @matrix.org open standard in light of the #SaltTyphoon attack on the US telephone network.
Right, let’s give bsky a go for realsies this weekend. 😎🚀
February 2, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Right, let’s give bsky a go for realsies this weekend. 😎🚀
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Since announcing the idea of Matrix 2.0 at FOSDEM, we've been busy building out full real-world implementations for folks to play with, and today we're super excited to take the wraps off Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix. matrix.org/blog/2023/09... 👀🎉🎊🍾👀
Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
matrix.org
September 21, 2023 at 3:49 PM
Since announcing the idea of Matrix 2.0 at FOSDEM, we've been busy building out full real-world implementations for folks to play with, and today we're super excited to take the wraps off Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix. matrix.org/blog/2023/09... 👀🎉🎊🍾👀
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I ended up on Sky News this morning, trying to explain how catastrophic the Online Safety Bill is, in terms of introducing a backdoor into end-to-end encryption: https://youtu.be/QQZ7sIk-iHQ
Matthew Hodgson is interviewed by Ian King on Sky News about the Online Safety Bill
youtu.be
July 7, 2023 at 1:59 PM
I ended up on Sky News this morning, trying to explain how catastrophic the Online Safety Bill is, in terms of introducing a backdoor into end-to-end encryption: https://youtu.be/QQZ7sIk-iHQ
