Security News > 2021 > October > Element celebrates The Great Facebook Outage with a Signal bridge for Matrix

Matrix-based communications and collaboration app Element has continued its mission to make bridges into the decentralised network a little more commercially acceptable with connectivity for Signal.

Amandine Le Pape, co-founder of Element, had already given WhatsApp a jab with the privacy blade the last time we spoke and Element's CEO, Matthew Hodgson, joined the party during our chat about the Signal bridge.

Still, it's not an ideal situation and required a coordination with more Matrix clients than just Element itself in order to deal with the issue.

As for Signal, Element noted that both it and Matrix provide end-to-end encrypted communication.

That said, Element reckoned its product was better suited for enterprise users and those seeking to avoid the dreaded shadow IT. As with the other bridges provided by Element, Signal users appear as Matrix users once they are connected.

The addition of yet another supported bridge via Element is therefore to be welcomed.

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