I wanna know if MATRIX recipients know my IP, and more globally what the recipients know about me (how the matrix protocol works). THX

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      8 months ago

      Like all of it. It is not a “leak” if it is working as intended.

      Anyone can spin up a Matrix server, join a room with it and the Matrix network will happily push a complete copy of the room metadata (all the way back to the point the room was first created) to that new homeserver.

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          8 months ago

          Yes it is a problem for both public and private rooms as this info is stored and shared retroactively. Lets say one of the participants of a private room gets compromised or you invite someone that has their account on a compromised homeserver. This then results in the entire room meta-data history (since the room was created) being shared with that compromised homeserver which can then easily analyse it in detail.

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            8 months ago

            That doesn’t sound realisticly threatening to me. Besides, if I want the highest security and privacy I use onion routing.

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              8 months ago

              lol, why are you even posting on a privacy community then? And using Tor doesn’t help at all in that case.