GettyThe French government has been developing an instant messaging app called Tchap in order to secure government employee conversations. The launch on Wednesday saw Tchap heralded as a "secure alternative to consumer applications such as WhatsApp or Telegram." Yet within just 90 minutes of release, French security researcher Robert Baptiste had blown a great big hole through the supposedly super secure application. "Anyone can make mistakes or miss a vulnerability" Baptiste says, adding that as he doesn't "know in detail what ANSSI did" that he couldn't really comment further. By moving the government conversations onto internal French servers, the risk of potential foreign nation state surveillance was meant to be lowered.

Source: Forbes April 20, 2019 10:29 UTC