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Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative (www.theregister.com)
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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 18 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

that's reskinned, siloed matrix instance with maybe minimal changes

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

German Army does the same. No shame there.

[–] belochka@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Any ideas why it's always Matrix? Not even XMPP.

With not very performant servers and not very rich choice of clients, and still work in progress. And notably more fit for group chats rather than anything private and secure.

It's just Matrix being popular?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

xmpp sucks balls for this scenario. there are incredible footguns in encrypted xmpp, it wasn't there from day one and mind you it's intended for non-nixos users. they have migrated from threema

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

Maybe. Or they got the feeling to use a low-effort open protocol, that isn’t xmpp. I mean, they considered open whisper, for example, they would have to invest in a custom client.

With matrix they slap a new sticker on the software and call it a day.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I mean, yeah. But it's not some national open source project, and that was claimed. Also, i'd like to know how intensely it was audited, because it's something different from open-source matrix homeserver/element-x (it's the propertiary part of it)

polish army used it too before this one, but it wasn't intended for sensitive info

[–] M33@piefed.world 4 points 6 hours ago

France did that too with matrix fork « tchap »