• explorator_1317@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Is there a given reason for this? Is it something they’re working on changing? I know very little about cybersecurity, but that sounds like a suboptimal situation.

    • Jade@programming.dev
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      1 day ago
      • There are efforts to encrypt more information and metadata, and to reduce the extent metadata can be correlated
      • The primary reason that things aren’t encrypted is to allow the server to perform necessary parts of the protocol, like deciding who is in a room, what the title of the room is and to whom should messages be delivered.