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Re:Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized commun... by Funes- on Saturday August 22, 2020 @05:02AM (#24242810)
I think everyone should be free to post whatever they want; nonetheless, providing some kind of source to incriminating claims would be great--if only to make verifying them easier to other users.

In any case, this kind of posts is a reminder to stay alert and think critically; otherwise, we would believe many instances of misinformation without giving them a second thought. And we cannot expect others to downvote comments to oblivion or moderate them: it's something we ourselves have to be responsible for.

Re:Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized commun... by chromedev on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:02AM (#24243549)
Re:Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized commun... by Arathorn on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:45AM (#24243749)
That post was nothing to do with the security incident in question here (which happened April 11th 2019; that post is from March). The details in that post are sadly true (as others confirm on that thread).

However, we have no reason to believe there was a link to the April incident.

Re:Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized commun... by chromedev on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:37PM (#24246684)
You called him malicious/dangerous and said he is involved in an ongoing campaign of exploiting security vulnerabilities in Matrix.
Re:Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized commun... by Arathorn on Saturday August 22, 2020 @05:27PM (#24247397)
yes, and he was, by his own admission: repeatedly bragging about exploiting bugs in Matrix’s beta design which we hadn’t fixed fast enough in his estimation (hijacking Matrix HQ; bricking #matrix-dev; threatening to loop over all public rooms to brick them unless we paid him; etc). It wasn’t exactly subtle, and it’s bizarre if you think we’re making this up or presenting without evidence.

However, the matrix.org security breach in Apr 2019 was unrelated to him, as far as we know.

Re:Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized commun... by detaro on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:41PM (#24246704)
Which is not what you claimed.
Re:Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized commun... by chromedev on Saturday August 22, 2020 @05:09PM (#24247272)
That's how I perceived it.
Re:Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized commun... by phre4k on Saturday August 22, 2020 @05:53PM (#24247567)
Maybe you want to look into your perception of the world in contrast to facts. Some bias in there apparently.
Re:Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized commun... by chromedev on Saturday August 22, 2020 @06:58PM (#24247959)
Based on what was said by Arathorn, it would be easy for anyone to perceive it that way
Re:Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized commun... by detaro on Sunday August 23, 2020 @03:54PM (#24254777)
It would be easy to perceive Arathorn to be talking about some future event instead of the protocol issues he mentions earlier in the same comment?