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The French government doesn't consider WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram secure enough, replaced by Olvid (Google translate link in post text) (www.lepoint.fr)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Tibert@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Another article, much better and presents in more detail that Olvid was audited on an older version and chosen because it was French and they applied for it (French) https://www.numerama.com/tech/1575168-pourquoi-les-ministres-vont-devoir-renoncer-a-whatsapp-signal-et-telegram.html

Google translate link original post : https://www-lepoint-fr.translate.goog/high-tech-internet/les-ministres-francais-invites-a-desinstaller-whatsapp-signal-et-telegram-29-11-2023-2545099_47.php?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=wapp

The translation has some mistakes but good enough to understand the context.

Here is a short summary :

Olvid passed a 35d intrusion test by Anssi (French cybersecurity state organisation) experts or designated experts, with code examination without finding any security breach. Which is not the case of all other 3 messaging apps (either because they didn't do any test, or because they didn't pass).

This makes WhatsApp, signal and telegram unreliable for state security.

And so government members and ministerial offices will have to use Olvid or Tchap (French state in house messaging app).

More detail in the article.

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[–] suckmyspez@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (7 children)

It’s not open source…big no no for me 🤷‍♂️

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)
[–] suckmyspez@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yup I did see they were on GitHub but when I looked the iOS repository is months (and several releases) out of date.

I’d expect an open source project to be working in public…not in private and updating their public repositories later down the line

[–] satan@r.nf -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

sorry sir, we didn't realize the world revolves around you. we'll change it to your liking at once. We'll run the code by you before we even think of it first

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