EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals

Re:EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption... by jorvi on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:38AM (#25942341)

To be honest, I much prefer the French government's way, where they are transitioning to Matrix and running their own server. That way they aren't beholden to any organization other than themselves.

In general I think it would be great if the EU made it a directive* to national governments to prefer open source.

Imagine, a world where the entire EU runs on an EU-customized version of Ubuntu/Fedora, office work being done in Libreoffice, messaging done in Matrix. The support contracts would run in the hundreds of millions and be a huge boost to the improvement of said software. Not to mention some internal IT teams would probably be contributing patches for their specific use cases and bugs.

* I am aware the EU has relatively little power to enforce such a thing.

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Re:EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption... by teekert on Friday January 29, 2021 @03:37AM (#25955312)

I would highly prefer that as well, in fact it would make me very happy! It gives a lot of credence to a project if a government starts to use it. It would be good if they performed transparent security audits as well. Like the Dutch the French have also rejected back-doors [0] in the past but like the Dutch, the French also sometimes say dangerous things [1].

[0] https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/french-government...

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2017/02/28/german_french_ministe...

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