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Dutch & French police take down Matrix encrypted chat app; 2.3 million messages captured (nltimes.nl)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

When was this? In years past there were weird restrictions about exporting strong encryption algorithms from the US. So much so that Java didn't have unlimited strength algorithms bundled by default. Depending on the time she said this/she was talking about then it could've just been a comment on the weak algorithms being, well, weak.