• @MR_GABARISE
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    441 year ago

    I’ll be damned if we’ll have to thank the UK for getting RCS normalized.

    • @QuadratureSurfer
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      381 year ago

      This has nothing to do with RCS from what I read on the article. It looks like the UK wants to be able to tell companies to disable security features such as End to End Encryption so that they can view the messages.

    • @warmaster
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      91 year ago

      That would be better than iMessage or Whatsapp, but even better if we all moved to Simplex, or other secure and private messaging app.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Not necessarily. Google has implemented E2EE in their implementation, but it only works if both parties are using Google Messages. It’s not a standard part of the spec.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I too could manually encrypt data and send it via regular old sms. That would require the other party to know of and make use of extra tools to be able to read and reply. If not, then they might not be able to read the message, or worse, reply in plaintext. That’s what google is doing with rcs. Rcs is not encrypted. the google app encrypts the data and sends it “unencrypted” over rcs. From rcs’ point of view it looks like “this user is trying to send random junk… who am I to judge?”