Microsoft Teams is such a horrible piece of software that productivity will rise after abandoning Teams.
Just created
In testing for the past year
Why would they name it “Visio”? That is already the name of a different Microsoft product.
Because that’s the French word for it, a visioconférence.
This is awesome!
But I am confused, isn’t github Microsoft though? Why host it there?
France has horrible laws for encryption, so how much do you want to bet this thing doesn’t have e2ee.
This is an Intel operation
Zoom has poor encryption. I have seen targeted ads a day after discussing very specific chemical reagents on zoom.
Zoom, Teams, Meet, and all the major providers do not have e2ee on by default. It’s a paid extra and almost nobody turns it on.
Mega uses e2ee by default, and it cannot be turned off.
Its FOSS (or I guess FLOSS for this case since they are French lol), meaning it doesn’t matter if the people creating the app are “good” or “bad” actors. A “good” actor can always create a fork or host their own instance.
French people are literally not able to fork it and add e2ee without the government’s permission.
France requires government approval for exporting any software with crypto
Source? I see the repo as MIT licensed so I don’t see why forking it and hosting our own instance would be a problem.
Non-french people can, of course.
FLOSS makes more sense than FOSS anyway.
Never heard about this.
France requires companies to get permission to export cryptography. They’re one of the worst countries in Europe for crypto.
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/encryption-laws/
That’s one good place I want to see tax payer money going. Would be nice if a more governments join in and make big corpo irrelevant.
I get that government use needs to be stringently tested for security, and so things take a little longer. But really, there are PLENTY of good FOSS products in existence that can be used as a base framework and a head-start to things like this.
You don’t have to re-invent the wheel when you could easily fork Jitsi-meet and harden it/secure it to your needs in the government.
Jitsi is one of my top 5 FOSS projects that are basically already mature enough to be used in a professional setting
MS about to swoop in with the yuge discounts…
That’s one good place I want to see tax payer money going. Would be nice if a more governments join in and make big corpo irrelevant.
It looks neat
Non!
Nota bene how the description omits the world “encryption”. Timeo Frenchmen et dona ferentes
