> [Jean-Noël Barrot, French digital minister]: «My team and I have been using it since July 2022. In December, the entire government will be using [Olvid], the world's most secure instant messaging system» ... // Tchap, the government-developed secure messaging and collaboration app, launched in 2019, is also allowed
The first question is, how can the rest of the public be sure that those two new systems indicated are free from backdoors.
Top cabinet officials are not mass surveillance targets, they are high level individual targets. Its nuts that cabinet level officials in any country can use them.
The first question is, how can the rest of the public be sure that those two new systems indicated are free from backdoors.
Olvid was briefly discussed by the community apparently only at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779230 two years ago.
Tchap was examined in 2019 at https://medium.com/@fs0c131y/tchap-the-super-not-secure-app-...