Technology

hideshow 6 child comments

parent

[–] Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 7 months ago (5 children)

No not really. More a "its not the right tool for the job" signal is a messenger for private use, EU is working on / has a matrix based messenger that is more suited.

You still want encryption but also central user management etc. (Which hopefully also includes archiving...).

hideshow 5 child comments

parent

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Sounds like a decentralized encrypted messaging platform is needed.

And when you need the highest trust, you just need to make sure you and the people you are talking to are all on trusted servers.

so governments would use their own gov.eu server or something, and only communicate sensitive info to others on that network so the info never leaves that server

hideshow 4 child comments

parent

[–] Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yes. Something they are working on based on Matrix ;)

hideshow 2 child comments

parent

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Sounds great, I didn't know about that

https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 7 months ago

I read this article earlier this year. Lets see, what comes out of it!

parent

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Sounds like a decentralized encrypted messaging platform is needed.

Decentralized probably isn't desirable for this use case; self-hosted is. When designing something for that purpose based on a decentralized protocol like Matrix, it's probably desirable to mandate that the most sensitive conversations take place using a server with decentralization disabled and a client restricted to using only that server.