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Anyone knows if this is related to matrix.org ? Or totally unrelated?
by sugarkjube 2y ago
Anyone knows if this is related to matrix.org ? Or totally unrelated?
- Arathorn 2y agoTotally unrelated. I guess there's a chance that the service might have been built using the Matrix protocol, but we're unaware of it if so - and the app in question doesn't look like any Matrix client I recognise. Unfortunately this looks to be a particularly unfortunate namespace collision. The takedown site makes it a bit clearer: https://www.operation-passionflower.com/ https://www.operation-passionflower.com/
- joshsimmons 2y agoFollowing up, we at Matrix.org have put out a blog post to clarify that this is unrelated: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/12/unrelated-cybercriminal-network-taken-down/ https://matrix.org/blog/2024/12/unrelated-cybercriminal-netw... Grateful to NL Times who included this line in their article: "The investigation did not spotlight the similarly-named Matrix open source communication protocol." https://nltimes.nl/2024/12/03/dutch-french-police-take-matrix-encrypted-chat-app-23-million-messages-captured https://nltimes.nl/2024/12/03/dutch-french-police-take-matri... Of course, we are staying tuned as more information becomes available.