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@ -153,13 +153,11 @@ you don't trust a particular service to have an app that doesn't encrypt its
data properly, you can just choose to use a different one by someone who you
trust more.
### email
Email is a famous case of this: if I sign up for an email account with Outlook,
I don't have to use a proprietary Outlook client. I _could_ if I wanted, and I
imagine that there may be some features that Microsoft has added specifically
to the Outlook website and apps, but since they claim to conform to the _open_
email specifications, I can just choose to use a different one.
**Email** is a famous case of this: if I sign up for an email account with
Outlook, I don't have to use a proprietary Outlook client. I _could_ if I
wanted, and I imagine that there may be some features that Microsoft has added
specifically to the Outlook website and apps, but since they claim to conform to
the _open_ email specifications, I can just choose to use a different one.
On top of that, email is _federated_, which means that if I didn't like
Outlook's services, I could switch to a different provider and _still_ be able
@ -167,13 +165,11 @@ to chat with people on Outlook, unlike many of today's siloed services where I
can't just message people on Facebook if I only have an account on Twitter,
since they don't talk to each other using the same protocol.
### matrix
[Matrix][matrix] is a new chat network that also follows in the same spirit as
email, but also has the benefits of multi-party encryption. There are multiple
apps and servers, and servers can federate with each other using an open
protocol. I would strongly recommend people who are interested in privacy to
consider it.
[**Matrix**][matrix] is a new chat network that also follows in the same spirit
as email, but also has the benefits of multi-party encryption. There are
multiple apps and servers, and servers can federate with each other using an
open protocol. I would strongly recommend people who are interested in privacy
to consider it.
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