Yes because the department of the DINUM that made it, the « Opérateur de produits interministériels » is only one of it’s many department. I can link you multiple French article that explain it was developed by the DINUM. Please research a little bit before posting, looking for skills on LinkedIn means nothing. Also the French entrepreneurs that usually get contracts for this were very angry about it.

It’s made by the DINUM, not an outside consulting company. And the product made by the DINUM (Tchap, France Connect …) are still in use.

Yes we know that it used the Signal protocol in 2016 but there is no doubt it drifted a lot since. A lot of changes were made to Signal since and we don’t know how WhatsApp protocol evolved. You can’t assume they’re still equivalent now. And one is open source with reproducible builds while the other is not.

It’s the French common name for this, visioconférence. Why would they care about Microsoft products for this?

I’m not saying it’s not, but that’s not enough to prevent them from using that name.

It’s a French common name for this.

But that’s the French name for this: visioconférence.

The gendarmerie has had its own Linux distribution for a while now but that’s about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

It’s based on LiveKit.

It has a lot of trackers: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.tribab.tricount.android/latest/

Because it doesn’t bring anything more than Firefox in strict mode and uBlock Origin.

Drop IDCAC and Privacy Badger, add consent-o-matic, sponsorblock and bypass paywall clean.

Check Arkenfox for Firefox config and extension recommendations.

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

Only use temp mails for unimportant, one-shot account, otherwise use an email relay.

Cookie autodelete doesn’t work with strict mode and you should use strict mode. Just drop it.

You don’t need an extension to auto remove cookies with Firefox.