Due to concerns about targeted digital espionage, the EU Commission has instructed its highest-ranking officials to immediately dissolve a central Signal group.
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…).
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
So… Not because “that’s a privacy tool, conducting public business there is antidemocratic”.
Instead because, “look at how those Americans use it wrongly, we don’t want to be like them.”
. . .
Huh. I have mixed feelings about this.
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…).
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
Yes. Something they are working on based on Matrix ;)