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I don't follow. What does my hard drive have to do with plaintext messages on Element's servers?
by arianvanp 5y ago
I don't follow. What does my hard drive have to do with plaintext messages on Element's servers?
- square_usual 5y agoAs far as I can tell, the messages don't live in plaintext on Element's servers - they are bridged in plaintext to Matrix, which is end to end encrypted.
- iforgotpassword 5y agoAj, my bad. I skimmed over the part where it says they are hosting the bridge for you. Since matrix is focused on privacy etc I assumed this is available as a container/VM I can run at home or on a VPS. Indeed then very weird why I should trust them more with my personal data than anybody else.
- IceWreck 5y ago> Since matrix is focused on privacy etc I assumed this is available as a container/VM I can run at home or on a VPS. All bridges, and the matrix homeserver itself have been open source and self-hostable for years. I host a homeserver + some bridges myself. This is just the sugar-coated SaaS for people who dont want to do it themselves.
- KoftaBob 5y ago> Since matrix is focused on privacy etc I assumed this is available as a container/VM I can run at home or on a VPS. It is! https://matrix.org/bridges/ https://matrix.org/bridges/