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🇩🇪Sowohl das Europaparlament als auch die Bundeswehr verwenden die US-amerikanische Konferenzplattform . Beim der war das aus vielen Gründen besonders fatal:
🤦Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung war nicht aktiviert und wird von Webex kaum unterstützt
🤦Analoge Telefoneinwahl aus dem Ausland ist natürlich leicht abhörbar
🤦Offensichtlich keine Prüfung, wer alles teilnahm; Spoofing ist einfach
🤦US-Anbieter sind für die USA grundsätzlich abhörbar (ohne )

Jetzt oder nie: Wir brauchen eine Kommunikations-Souveränitätsoffensive, die offene, selbst betriebene, metadatensparsame und sicher verschlüsselte Kommunikation zur Selbstverständlichkeit macht! Herr Bundeskanzler, Frau EP-Präsidentin, übernehmen Sie!

Patrick Breyer

🇩🇪 Both the European Parliament and the German Armed Forces Bundeswehr use the US conference platform . In the affair, this was fatal for many reasons:
🤦 End-to-end encryption was not activated and is barely supported by Webex
🤦 Analog telephone dial-in from abroad is of course easy to intercept
🤦 Obviously no check of who was dialed in, spoofing easy
🤦 US providers can always be intercepted by the US (without )

Now or never: We need a communication sovereignty offensive that makes open, self-operated, metadata-saving and securely encrypted communication a normality! Mr Bundeskanzler, Ms EP President, take it from here please!

@troed @echo_pbreyer Personally I wouldn't consider Matrix a solution for that specific problem.

But YMMV...

@ij

They do - but maybe you have knowledge to share that will change my mind? :D

@echo_pbreyer

@troed have they finally implemented video codecs to their SIP bridge? And beside that: when users are using a not-secure system despite the fact that they could use a secure system, then this is not a technical issue and would be the same with other tools.
@echo_pbreyer

@ij

I'm sorry but I don't see it. If you run Matrix (E2EE) over a mobile connection or hotel wifi no one can intercept the traffic. The tool does make a difference here.

@echo_pbreyer

@echo_pbreyer I thought #bundeswehr is already using #element and #matrix

So there already is a solution deployed that is fully self-operated and support #E2EE

Wouldn't it be the correct move to invest more into this to fully replace WebEx in the future?

@tgwtgs1589 @echo_pbreyer group calls in matirx/element currently use jitsi which isnt e2ee there is very active work on element call which is native group calls in matrix which are e2ee but its not quite ready yet

@haise @echo_pbreyer

OK interesting. Actually I understood that it is by now. But apparently you are correct (I think?) element.io/blog/element-call-b

However in best case scenario a European solution could contribute to the open standard in order for being usable for every country. Why shouldn't we all profit from such a solution if it's paid from our tax money?

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