The Swiss Armed Forces have banned their personnel from using messengers such as the application WhatsApp during service. Instead, they should use a Swiss exchange app messages.
The decision was made for security reasons of course, and for the protection of the data. The costs will be borne by the military.
The decision in her favor Swiss application Threema seems to have been taken since the end of 2021, because the following tweet is from that period. The whole issue, however, became more widely known in 2022.
On Facebook, the Swiss Army recommends @ThreemaApp to all Military staff, who get it free. #threema #encryption #swissarmy #switzerland #securemessaging #opensourcecode pic.twitter.com/LdwHyEGbVh
— OSINT Tactical (@OSINT_Tactical) January 1, 2022
Swiss-Info he said the decision with a post made on January 5, 2022. The decision of the army leadership is that in the future their members should use exclusively the Swiss messaging application Threema while on duty for security reasons.
All other SMS services will no longer be allowed.
The Tagesanzeiger reports: "All other services are no longer permitted." So, in the future, the military will prohibit its members from exchanging information each other via Whatsapp, Signal or Telegram and transmit official data via these channels.
Swiss Army spokesman Daniel Reist said:
We cannot force anyone to download the Threema app to their personal account device. In the future, every member of the military will be able to use the messenger they want for private use. But official messages will have to be done through Threema in the future.
Of course the reason is privacy and security concerns. In January 2021, the FBI had revealed in a document which metadata can be retrieved by messenger services even from those they use end-to-end encryption.
According to Spiegel Online, the Army leadership states that Threema complies with the European General Data Protection Regulation and is not subject to the Cloud Act. This ensures that US authorities will not be able to access data stored on the Internet.
Threema does not even require a phone number for the messages, but once does charge a very small amount to purchase the app. But the Swiss army will cover the costs.
Every "truth" has many ways of "reading".
So, clearly, the Whatsapp application is clearly perforated from the time it belongs to the favabook monster. However, regarding Signal and Telegram, I have some doubts as this "truth" could be read as follows: we throw you whatsapp cheese and together we put two more that we CANNOT break.
So, we suggest you our game, Threema, which belongs to us and is a strainer and easily opens for our IT's.
Bad lies. We live in dirty times of a peculiar world war where nothing we hear is as we hear it, while -also- nothing we see as clear we can be sure is clear.
Without the slightest thought of creating or feeling fear and pessimism, good day to the whole world who does not believe what they say and maintains his critical ability beyond maistream situations.