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France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials (numerique.gouv.fr)
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[–] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

Element is open source, so I would be very unsurprised to learn it's an Element fork.

E: TechCrunch says "TChap" is based on Matrix (unfortunately in a security vulnerability article):

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/19/security-flaw-in-french-government-messaging-app-exposed-confidential-conversations/

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Nice article, but sounds like he only had access to conversations available to every single government employee? He wasn't able to crack into any direct messages or channels that he didn't get an invite for.

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