🔒 Decoding E2EE: Privacy vs. Usability
E2EE keeps your messages private - but can make adding devices, recovering lost data, or keeping your identity tricky. We make it seamless with unlimited devices, full history, and easy recovery.
Read about the trade-offs and how we work to solve them.
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.
🚀 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-...
A YouTube thumbnail for Matrix Live. The Title says "How Hard Coul It Be? A two-day Element hackathon". It's the 12th episode of the 11th season.
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...
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.
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...
A door outlawing photographs and video recording
Same door as before
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?
Neglected housing, sign claims it to be under constant surveillance.
Constant I tell ya!
Bin with alarming signage
This bin means business.
Open door with the label ‘open this door first’
It’s happening. This is not a drill. The Door has been Opened. Repeat The Door has been Opened. Assemble!
⚠️ If you’re running an outdated version of Synapse, you’re putting your organisation at risk.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.
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
🚨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.
Huge congrats to the team. This fundamentally changes what you can do with a large scale Matrix server.
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.
Matrix stand at K2, come say hi. #fosdem
Eurostar
#fosdem here we come
Right, let’s give bsky a go for realsies this weekend. 😎🚀
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... 👀🎉🎊🍾👀
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
I have questions …
