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US Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix
Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push the Defense Department to expand the use of Matrix to deliver sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interoperable communications.
The move is in reaction to law enforcement backdoors in the public telephone network - including AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile - being hijacked by Salt Typhoon; a cyberattack group believed to be operated by the Chinese government. As they are all based on the same interoperable open standard, they could all easily federate securely with each party hosting their own data and using their own Matrix-based frontend; for example NATO could use its NI2CE Messenger, while Germany’s Bundeswehr uses its BwMessenger and France uses Tchap. That is the role for offerings such as Element Server Suite, which enables an organisation to take advantage of end-to-end encryption while maintaining overall control of the system through classic enterprise functionality such as advanced identity and access management.
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