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it will be funny when they will impose those backdoors to Matrix... France like Germany use Matrix for their diplomatic communication. If they add these backdoor to the project, it will be like: "Hey world! You know this very strong and very secured app we use to discuss important geopolitic matters that could trigger wars around the globe? Well, because we are soooo stupid, you can access it too... All our most top secrets message at your fingertip... Have fun!"
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I had no idea they used Matrix. That's beyond hilarious. Surely they'll just make an exception for themselves or something.
Sounds like it's called "Tchap".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_%28protocol%29
https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/document/french-government-launches-house-developed-messaging-service-tchap
As far as I know from working in one of those administrations previously, the adoption of Tchap failed because of the bad UX around key exchange and people went back to Microsoft Teams. I couldn't find any recent news about it in the French news. I would be curious to hear about someone using Tchap today.
I think deploying this backdoored version without publishing the code for it would violate elements new agpl
Well, we already did basically that quite successfully in the past. Wikipedia.org – Operation Rubicon
How do you even impose backdoors onto an open source service that can be hosted decentralized?
by saying "accept this MR or we will ban any app using your code"... :/
Yes, but when I am running my own server, what can force me to build a binary that contains the backdoor?
1.5 Millions Euros if you are caught :/
Yeah, I'mma have to see that before I believe that. Otherwise I'd drop anonymous hints left and right for every single bit of IoT that runs against an MQTT or XMPP server hosted and forgotten somewhere back in 2018. That backlash would shake them awake.
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