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by dogma1138 2230 days ago
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.