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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wasn't France the one that started switching to Matrix and funded a bunch of improvements?

https://web.archive.org/web/20180426180007/https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app/

It's great that Germany is doing the same, I just remember Matrix talking about money from France and helping the French government deploy Matrix for government use back in the day. A lot of the E2E encryption improvements were attributed to their collaboration with France at the time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

France is such a bizare country... They enforce E2E encryption and at the same time try to break E2E encryption?

:/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I don't think France tried to break E2E yet? Some political groups repeatedly submit law projects through the democratic process, but as long as it doesn't pass I think the best we can say is that France is against.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Yes and the French administration has access to a modified version of Matrix called Tchap.