Yeah, I don’t buy the argument that Försvarsmakten makes that they should use signal because most people already have it.

Ok, this is for unclassified comms over phone, but to me it seems dumb to use the same app I use to talk with my friends about last night’s party to talk with my unit about (unclassified) military stuff.

Försvarsmakten could easily spin up a distributed Matrix instance, and order all personel to use that for military stuff.

I hope that this is just a stopgap order while they get a properly secured self-hosted solution.

I am actually a bit confused here…

This seems like something Försvarsmakten should be able to set up their own Matrix infrastructure to use.

Was that never considered?

Why make yourself dependant on a foreign company’s servers at all?