After the Tchap project based on Matrix, the French Prime Minister asks anyone in the gouvernement to use Olvid, the only app validated by the ANSSI, with metadata encryption and no centralised architecture nor contacts discovery. But only the front-ends are open source, not the back-end.
Indeed. However we can think the Olvid company, a private company, was very pushy to promote its product and made people think the other apps are worse. In fact it seems Olvid, compared to Signal, encrypt metadata and does not rely on contacts nor identity server. And because it’s a French app, “sovereignty matters” (even of ministers use Microsoft Office solutions 🤡)
Western countries got ‘lobbying’, Eastern countries got ‘corruption’ amirite? If they really cared, they would’ve certified Tox, that I2P IM or Simplex…
If your solution had been chosen, it’s lobbying. If not, call corruption 😂
The term “lobbying” doesn’t mean corruption. It means basically have meetings with stakeholders to discuss issues regarding policy and agenda.
If you hold a meeting with your local city council asking for a crosswalk, you’re engaged in lobbying. If you chat with the local police chief asking for more patrols in some part or another of town, you’re engaged in lobbying.
Now, lobbying might set the stage for corruption. If you’re talking to your city council about the need for a crosswalk and you show a video of cars speeding by an intersection, that’s ok. If instead you tell your city councilman that if he hires your construction company to build that crosswalk then you’ll pay him a wad of cash, that’s corruption.
Lobbying is not corruption. It’s weird how the basis of any democratic system is attacked for being “corruption” to try to justify corruption in corrupt hellholes.
That shouldn’t be a job for the French administration ? How can they give credit to a private company for such sensible informations ?