Olvid, an instant messaging application made in France, is more secure than WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and others. Unlike competing apps, Olvid doesn't claim
  • GadgeteerZA
    2·
    4 years ago

    Had not seen this either but good for France in taking ownership of the problem. About 3 years ago or so their government also adopted Matrix as their own hosted secure messenger platform for government, and produced their own forked version of Element/Riot app to go with it.

    • nutomicA
      6·
      4 years ago

      I have never heard of it before, and with 10k downloads it seems extremely small. Matrix has way more than that and is fully open source and federated, so I would just use that.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
        3·
        4 years ago

        Yeah, I fundamentally distrust any security software that’s not open source because there is no way to verify that the software is doing what it says it’s doing. Privacy and security cannot be based on trust.

      • roastpotatothiefOP
        2·
        4 years ago

        Okay that makes sense. But then what about wire?

        That ticks all the boxes - open source, doesn’t require phone number, is based in Switzerland, etc.

        It also has a killer feature nothing else has - sketch. You don’t realise how addictive it is until you try it.

        • nutomicA
          1·
          4 years ago

          I tried that once but didnt the design of the Android app at all, very different from other apps. Since then I didnt try it again, because I have better things to do than trying out messengers all day long 😃