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In a landmark demonstration of the power of the Matrix open standard, two of Sweden's major public sector agencies, Försäkringskassan (the Swedish Social Insurance Agency) and Trafikverket (the Swedish Transport Administration), have successfully federated their entirely separate real time communications systems.

Our hyper-connected world is synonymous with progress. Digital transformation promises efficiently-run smart cities, improved economic performance, better healthcare outcomes and all the rest of it. Simultaneously, interconnections also create vulnerabilities; from ransomware crippling public services, to cyber attacks designed to damage critical national infrastructure, or silently extract sensitive data for years on end.

For years, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) has been the gold standard for digital privacy. But it has always come with a silent trade-off: when you add a new member to an encrypted chat, they arrive at a blank slate (as in, they can’t see conversation history). Any previous conversation - no matter how vital to their onboarding - remained locked away, accessible only to those who were already there.