France bans ministers from WhatsApp, Signal; demands French alternatives

Comments

• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah, because givernment-funded software is obviously safer. /s

  I bet, if they develop their own messager, they won’t make it open-source.

  source

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m all for governments using taxpayer money to develop good software as long as they make it open source, sadly that’s rarely the case. Germany made some progress in that area, but that’s about it.

    source
  • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I bet the idea is that the data stays in France, and I fully understand and support this. Even if it is not open-source, but of course it would be preferable.

    source
  • epyon22@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    According to the article they are using olvid. Doesn’t look open source

    source

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And is, surprise surprise, French.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • RomTy@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      clients are, but not the server-side parts

      source
  • bouh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When you are the said government, you obviously know who is spying the app you know.

    source
  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It seems to be a proprietary product. And there’s no Linux version. So yeah, not great.

    source
• felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Time for them to run a matrix server?

  source

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They are already doing that

    element.io/case-studies/tchap

    source
  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Matrix is not the best encrypted messenger, it’s more focused around public groups with E2EE being an optional feature as that doesn’t work with most bridges, which is the selling feature of Matrix.

    source

    • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But they could host it locally, right? And E2EE is available?

      source

      • -> View More Comments