Mastodawn

Congratulations to the Belgian Military with BEAM. Built on the strong foundations of #matrix you are perfectly equipped, and indeed way better than with WhatsApp or other US based spyware. https://beam.belgium.be/en/

BEAM – Secure messaging for Belgian public services

Secure and end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, specifically designed for Belgian government employees and public sector organizations.

BEAM

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Elric Mar 18

@BeLibre I'm sure it'll comply with the proposed Age Verification and ChatControl backdoors, right?

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Karelt [KAI]

Mar 18

@elricofmelnibone @BeLibre Doesn't really matter as this app is not meant for personal/private use but for inter governmental communications. The underlying tech is the open standard matrix and the open source apps element and synapse.

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Elric

@Karelt The snarky point which you seem to have missed was that the EU ChatControl proposals included exemptions for politicians, because of course politicians would never distribute illegal images or anything nefarious. Only regular folks do that. Of course.