Must be nice living in Canada. When I was there I heard you guys bitching about your administrations a lot, but at least the administrative stuff was pretty straightforward (I almost experience culture shock when I went to do some administrative stuff to regularize my social security situation, and student visa a few years letters, and got all the correct answers from talking to a single person, who didn’t even try to backhandedly redirect me to some other service.

Over here in France, we get official, sometimes of crucial importance, communications that look like textbook phishing (strange wording, embedding links to shady-ass looking domain names).

Hell, with the latest gov data breach (which is like, the 5th one this year or something?) they sent us mails with anti-phishing good practices telling stuff like “never click on a link from a mail, go to the official website by yourself and find the thing from there” then follow up with a link…

Sometimes they’ll use extremely shady links too (sorry, my dear Republic, but I ain’t clicking a link to something that doesn’t end in .gouv.fr from you)

Cherry on top : they recently passed a law exposing private companies to huge fines for not respecting stuff like breaches disclosures etc, then they (the government and/or related institutions) admitted to no wrongdoings after getting caught burying the evidence and not respecting basic security best practices. The only one that got some traction is the latest one because the hacker allegedly managed to extract all the financial data of the country’s top tax evaders