‘These digital tools are not devoid of security flaws,’ government document says.
  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
    121·
    10 months ago

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

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

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      11·
      10 months 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.

    • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      10 months 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.

    • bouh@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

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

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      41·
      10 months 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.

        • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
          41·
          10 months ago

          Yes and yes. But Matrix falls under the same group as WhatsApp and Signal, it’s UK not French based.

          • 520@kbin.social
            5·
            10 months ago

            However, Matrix as a service isn’t reliant on a parent company’s servers like WhatsApp and Signal are.