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Combating abuse in Matrix - without backdoors (Matrix blog)

Combating abuse in Matrix - without backdoors (Matrix blog)

[Security] Posted Oct 20, 2020 14:12 UTC (Tue) by corbet

This Matrix blog entry describes a planned reputation-management system that, it is claimed, accomplishes some of the same goals as government backdoors without the need to compromise end-to-end encryption. "Just like the Web, Email or the Internet as a whole, there is literally no way to unilaterally censor or block content in Matrix. But what we can do is provide first-class infrastructure to let users (and room/community moderators and server admins) make up their own mind about who to trust, and what content to allow. This would also provide a means for authorities to publish reputation data about illegal content, providing a privacy-respecting mechanism that admins/mods/users can use to keep illegal content away from their servers/clients."

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