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robotica@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Addendum: Today was also my first ever message received via RCS. I know the person through WhatsApp, but he messaged me via, just, phone number. I have an Android, but what does he have? I dunno, but it works, and it’s awesome. I sent text, image, audio, video, read receipts with a device whose corporation is probably competing with the one of my phone.
Ahh, this is what the engineers had imagined 50+ years ago, and we’re living it.
kayazere@feddit.nl 2 months ago
At the moment there is no end-to-end encryption as part of RCS. Google created a proprietary add-on for their app. Apple is working with the standards committee to add end-to-end encryption.
RCS on android has only two supported apps, one by Google and one by Samsung. Google is actively blocking phones with custom Roms from using their RCS app.
Google also provides/hosts the RCS backend software used by most telecoms. They can host their own implementation, and most did at the start. But now a lot switched to Google to provide their RCS service.
You can’t get around Big Tech spyware if you want to use RCS.
robotica@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you for the heads-up! I admit I relied on hearsay on how RCS works, I just assumed it had E2EE. Actually, I did almost send personally identifiable information over RCS, but decided not to, I’ll take that as divine intervention protecting me (lol). Thanks again.