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I've seen Thai police stations use WhatsApp groups for distributing photos of paperwork and other information. Oh, and the core of the UK government runs on Wh

• barbazoo 3y ago
  > the core of the UK government runs on WhatsApp Wow, I'm surprised a government IT would allow this. Any corp I've worked for strictly prohibited use of messaging tech that's not self-hosted. That makes me wonder, what _do_ governments around the world use for p2p communication?
  • 0xbadcafebee 3y ago
    > Any corp I've worked for strictly prohibited use of messaging tech that's not self-hosted. I'm sure the business profited greatly from that...
  • Aleklart 3y ago
    phone calls, zoom, hosted email servers, private islands, etc usual stuff.
  • discordance 3y ago
    Have worked with gov in a few countries and seen lots of Teams usage.
  • theaudacityofyw 3y ago
    To my horror, the Irish government also uses WhatsApp quite extensively.
  • technion 3y ago
    There's a fairly wide history of self hosted Government Microsoft Exchange servers ending in ransomware payouts that suggests that blunt self hosting rules isn't as useful as it sounds. And right now you look can look all the big MoveIT mass exfiltration hitting a wide range of orgs that wouldn't use Sharepoint "for security reasons".