Showing all posts in

Element Blog

Advancing Secure & Convenient Government Communications: The Case for Element

The recent incident involving the inadvertent inclusion of a journalist into a Signal group chat where US officials discussed sensitive military operations highlights the complexities governments face when using consumer messaging applications for official communications. Historically, various government administrations have used commercial messaging apps for official purposes. For example, Boris

A difficult chat: Messaging apps in Australian government

The Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) produced an excellent report on consumer messaging apps within the Australian government.

Build: Funding open source via commercial licensing

We've created our Build subscription to provide a commercial license that lets you develop proprietary products while supporting the Matrix ecosystem.

Why the Swedish Armed Forces’ switch to Signal misses the mark

Genuine security requires a holistic approach that considers not just encryption but also data governance, accessibility, interoperability...

Element Desktop update for Windows

Hi everyone, Apologies, we had a blip with today’s 1.11.94 Element Desktop app update for Windows (both 32 and 64 bit). If you’re struggling with launching the Element Desktop app on Windows, please download it from https://element.io/download and install it over the old

Running outdated versions of Synapse is a problem

If you’re still using the old Apache-licensed Synapse version 1.98.0 or older, you’re running unsupported, vulnerable software.

Free software needs free thinking

How the public sector can best support the open source vendors that are working hard to deliver their digital sovereignty.

Amandine Le Pape

Scaling to millions of users requires Synapse Pro

Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail if built on the community version of Synapse. Huge deployments need a different architecture, which is what Synapse Pro delivers.

In an increasingly volatile world, governments turn to Element and Matrix

Governments need digitally sovereign, secure and interoperable communications. The demand for Matrix is palpable.

Scotland’s brave new world of end-to-end encrypted workplace messaging

The Scottish government has banned the use of WhatsApp. It needs an alternative that’s just as easy to use, but that is built for the workplace.

2 / 16

Element is the fast, simple and private way to communicate with family, friends, teams, colleagues, organisations and the wider world.

Thanks for reading our blog— if you got this far, you should head toelement.ioto learn more!

For Web, Android, iOS, macOS, Windows & Linux