> Governments are increasingly concerned about the vulnerability of centralised communications platforms, such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and consumer messaging apps like WhatsApp or Signal. They are obvious honeypots that attract great interest from rogue nation states. Such systems are also vulnerable to global outages, whether that’s vendor mis-management or the result of nation state activity.
> Decentralised technology puts the ownership and control of a communications platform into the end-user organisation’s own hands, either by self-hosting or using choosing a trusted hosting provider.
https://element.io/blog/senators-implore-department-of-defense-to-expand-the-use-of-matrix/