Eurocops red pill the Matrix 'secure' criminal chat systems • The Register
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from sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org on 04 Dec 2024 11:10
https://lazysoci.al/post/19850688
from sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org on 04 Dec 2024 11:10
https://lazysoci.al/post/19850688
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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Really makes me wonder why criminals won’t use the actual Matrix protocol instead of this one. They wouldn’t have to pay for its use.
Same reason as to why corporate big wigs want to stick with Microsoft: Ease of use.
The Register failed in their due diligence by not clarifying from the beginning that this is a different Matrix chat than the open standard. They amended the mistake with an update to the post (quoted here in OP), but that is placed at the end of an article that not everybody is going to read all the way through.
IMHO this needs a rewrite to make clear from the outset that the Matrix protocol and matrix.org are not affiliated with the criminal chat service. As it stands, even with the correction, it looks like character assassination of a perfectly legal open source project.
I mean, the journalism is fucking amateur at best. “Red pill” isn’t a verb that’s immediately understandable, and yes, I know they say in journalism school to use plenty of similies instead of repeating yourself, but loads of English speakers wouldn’t have a clue what they mean by “Plod”
Yes, instead use rozzers, bacon or filth!
LOL, you completely lost me at "rozzers"!
I mean, I get the joke of using that expression in the context of a chat named after The matrix, but it's an in-group jargon that mostly the terminally online will get.