Matrix was built to become the open communication of the web and serve everyone. But, as the Internet and email did, its network effect started with governments. Today, and as proven by the audience in the room, most European governments and several others are either using it or looking at implementing it for their communications. This talk will tell the story of how we got there and why.
Yet we have responses that completely ignore matrix’s origin with mossad; that the software notoriously consumes excessive resources; that people are opting to disable encryption, because the perception is that it renders the platform unadoptable. The project has always claimed encryption as a primary objective, yet implementation has been subpar, buggy, incomplete and useless. The matrix protocol continues to be suspiciously pushed despite all these blinding concerns. Users are also ignoring Google’s involment with genocide and techno fascist states, absolving it and erroneously thinking it’s benign. “Just click the Google link bro!”