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I’m assuming they’ll develop their own clients rather than using something like Riot.

This isn’t that unheard of IRC and XMMP and other open protocols have been used in the past by governments within their own private networks.

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As far as I know the French government used a riot fork for their users but the changes are getting upstreamed. I think its not unrealistic that the Bundeswehr will go a similar way

This isn’t that surprising, the heavy lifting is already done for you adding things that maybe required for government use such as specific encryption scheme or central logging of messages can often be more easily added to the source or via middleware than developing a whole new protocol on your own.

The NSA used XMMP too https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_us/articl...

I know of a few other non-US government agencies that did that too.

Some countries even run their own MVNO’s for government uses no need to reinvent the wheel.

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