Amandine Jambert (EDPB/CNIL/FSFE), motive for lying, trust in blockchain and encryption
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
22:00 Tue, 27 Jan 2026
News reports have been reminding us on a regular basis that the Pentagon is limiting the support it provides to allies. European countries need to listen to President Trump and take defence more seriously, especially cybersecurity.
My advice to Dr Amandine "cryptie" Jambert is quite simple: if she wants to help Europe faces the challenges ahead, she needs to admit she was fooled by the FSFE misfits. More importantly, she needs to apologize to those people she fooled and recruited to join the same scam.
If Jambert feels bad, it's not because of harassment. It is because she was fooled and she has been used so effectively to fool others too. To clear her conscience, she needs to own up to that and apologize.
If she can't make this admission and apology in her own personal context, how can she be effective in her role as an expert in an office of the European Commission.
From the Catechism, paragraph 1847:
1847. "God created us without us: but he did not will to save us without us." To receive his mercy, we must admit our faults. "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
1849 Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. It has been defined as "an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law."
What this tells us is that when Jambert is unable to admit that she was fooled by the FSFE misfits because of her ego. Ego is frequently a factor in sinful behaviour.
The catechism goes on
1859 Mortal sin requires full knowledge and complete consent. It presupposes knowledge of the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God's law. It also implies a consent sufficiently deliberate to be a personal choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart133 do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin.
What this tells us is that when Jambert and I both became aware of the FSF/FSFE deception in 2017, our continued participation with full knowledge and complete consent would have become mortal sin. I understood and I quickly resigned. Why didn't Jambert?
Subject: FSF asking us to change our name II Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 08:39:00 +0000 From: Matthias Kirschner <mk@fsfe.org> To: ga@fsfeurope.org
Dear members,
as we wrote in our last mail we have again been approached by the FSF to change our name. Below there is a summary of the situation as well as the proposed next steps. Please let us know if you have any questions. It is longer than I wished for, but we had several new people join the GA since the last time we discussed this.
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Look at the consequences for people who have been fooled by the FSFE misfits.
Subject: Re: Financial results 2016 online Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 23:11:46 +0200 From: Reinhard Müller <reinhard@fsfe.org> Organization: Free Software Foundation Europe To: team@lists.fsfe.org
Hi, Max!
Am 2017-05-23 um 22:37 schrieb Max Mehl: > This seems to be the first year > with a turnover of more than 1 million Euros, right?
Not quite, at least not for my definition of the word "turnover" 🙂. It would be more like 650k (the income), which is still the highest value we ever had.
> It seems the non-Fellowship-donations have increased by more than 80% > (which is a remarkable number!). Could you please elaborate why this is > the case? Have there been single huge donations, or rather multiple > medium donations? Are they connected to our legal work or something > else?
In 2016, we received a significant sum from an inheritance where FSFE was the principal heir. The deceased person stated very clearly in the last will that FSFE is expected to not make much noise around this, and we of course respected this.
We also received a significant one-time donation from Lars P Mathiassen who is listed on our ThankGNUs page anyway.
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These people ask us to trust them on serious issues such as electronic payments facilitated by blockchain and cryptocurrency. How can we trust Jambert's advice on those topics if she can't even recognize the confusion between FSF and the fake FSFE misfits?
Dr Amandine "cryptie" Jambert has a PhD in cryptography and a safe government job, previously at CNIL and now at the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).
What on earth is the motive for this woman and some associates to lie and attack my family when my father died?
Out of coincidence, Pierre-Elliott Bécue, of the French military cybersecurity office ANSSI obtained his PhD at the same university as Jambert only ten years later. Like Jambert, Bécue has also been observed attacking my family at the time when my father died and immediately after the conviction of the late Cardinal George Pell.
The previous blog went over the history of the lies, making it clear that Jambert has always had conflicts of interest.
Nonetheless, for any crime, it is always important to look at the motive in some detail.
Cryptography, in general, hopes to solve two main problems. Firstly, you want to make sure that messages are protected from eavesdropping. We call that encryption. Secondly, you want to make sure the person at the other end of the communications channel really is who they claim to be, that is authentication.
We often use the fictional characters Alice, Bob, Eve and Mallory to demonstrate these concepts with a diagram. Here, to help Jambert see it in these terms, I've overlaid Jambert, the real Richard Stallman and the fake FSFE president Matthias Kirschner on top of Alice, Bob & Mallory.
In a technical sense, we have various ways to solve those encryption and authentication problems using advanced mathematics. The mathematics isn't important in this case.
Focus on the second part of the cryptography problem given above, the importance of verifying the authenticity of the person or organization you are corresponding with. In cryptography, our goal is to communicate with the real Bob, or in this case, the real Richard Stallman, founder of the real FSF.
According to my previous blog about Jambert's history, she was recruited to join the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) misfits in 2012. Was she one of many people who were fooled and believed we were joining the FSF and Dr Richard Stallman?
Should an expert in authenticating people be able to tell the difference between the FSF and the FSFE at the moment she was fooled to join the fake group, FSFE?
For five years from 2012 to 2017, Jambert may have been oblivious to the fact the FSFE misfits are not really part of the FSF. The FSF decided not to give a public warning so it is understandable that many people remained in the dark.
Nonetheless, when this issue was brought to our attention in 2017, in writing, we both became aware of it at the same time. Why was Jambert unable to understand this was a serious problem of identity/impersonation? People have communicated with, done voluntary work for and given money to the fake FSFE misfits believing it is a subsidiary or branch of the real FSF. From 2017, Jambert and I were both aware that people were being fooled.
I resigned from the FSFE in disgust in September 2018. Jambert stayed with the group until October 2023 and continues to associate with them in various ways.
Jambert's inability to comprehend and respond to this problem of authentication in the real world, even after I made public concerns about it, casts doubt over her own professional competence and her integrity. For example, in July 2018, she participated in the promotional video at Strasbourg to help the Germans recruit more French-speaking victims.
In parallel to this, we have the JuristGate scandal in Switzerland. For five years, the Swiss financial regulator, FINMA, appeared to be contemplating whether the company was a law office or an insurance office. During that time, professionals from other insurance companies and even a jurist from the Swiss police were fooled to quit their jobs and come and work for the rogue firm.
Why was the regulator unable to recognize it for what it was?
Back to Jambert, even if she doesn't care about being fooled by the Nigerian fraud, her attacks on my family are utterly selfish. As a member of the public service, why doesn't she take a moment to think about all the other victims of the fraud? How does Dr Richard Stallman feel when some other group is using his name to collect money from the public?
Jambert's lie has a motive. It looks like she is a woman in denial about her own incompetence, at least with respect to the FSF/FSFE dilemma, on matters of integrity, identity and authentication. As these concepts are fundamental to the practice of cryptography and e-commerce, she is lying to avoid answering further questions about her collusion in the FSF/FSFE deception.
As we are confronted with problems such as electronic cryptocurrency payments and artificial-intelligence generated videos, it is more vital than ever that professionals like Jambert need to show the highest level of integrity. Before she can help us with those challenges, she needs to come clean about the FSF/FSFE dilemma.
Things like this happen all the time and when we detect it, we have to be able to recognize what is going on and speak up. Look at the fake security company, Crypto AG that operated for decades in Switzerland. Now everybody knows it was really the CIA and BND.
It should be no big surprise that the FSFE misfits are just another scam.
In 2022, a woman from Lyon, France was tricked to quit the job she had held for seven years and go to work for an illegal legal insurance company in Geneva, Switzerland. Even the financial regulator, FINMA, knew about the illegal legal insurance company for up to five years but a series of tricks stopped them from shutting it down earlier.
Look at the analogous case of Dr Diana von Bidder-Senn, the mayor of Basel in Switzerland. Like Jambert, Diana von Bidder-Senn has a PhD in cybersecurity from the elite ETH Zurich. Yet she was unable to recognize that her own husband was being tricked by the social engineering attacks that have corrupted Debianism.
Subject: Re: condolences for Adrian Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:02:18 +0200 From: Diana von Bidder <diana@fortytwo.ch> To: Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org>
Dear Stefano Thank you for your wonderful mail! Yes Debian and people were very important to Adrian. I was glad that he was not only sitting alone in front of his computer but to know that there are people out there that estimate him and are his friends even if most of you did not know each other personally. The way you describe him (empathy, calm, insight, ... - just the Adrian I know) assures me on how good friends of Adrian are out there. And I will always continue to think of this (in a good way!) when continuing to use debian (which I became quite fond of because of Adrian). It's a pity that he couldn't go to Banja Luca anymore which he did so much look forward to. Anyway, I wish you all the best and hope you continue your good work.
- Diana
Her husband, Adrian von Bidder-Senn died on the very same day Carla and I got married. There appear to be many known victims in the Debian suicide cluster who were all tricked. They pretended that Debianism is a family but that is a trick. Read the detailed history of Adrian von Bidder-Senn's death on our wedding day. █