I don’t see this happening. Apple to/from Android are the only texts that the government can easily snoop on.
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el_bhm@lemm.ee 8 months ago
- EU passes the chat interop legislation.
- Apple is forced to do RCS.
- ???
- Corpos that shout now declare victory.
First privacy, then USB, now RCS.
KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 8 months ago
zepheriths@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are mandated back doors in most message apps. Messages between different message systems are normally harder to read
KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are mandated back doors in most message apps.
Source?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
RCS has an e2e encryption extension (created by Google)
netchami@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
All currently available RCS implementations are proprietary, you can’t trust the encryption if you can’t verify it.
macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Except the commenter above is talking about SMS/MMS which is not encrypted and very easy for a government to snoop on via the telecom company. You have no protections.
Comment105@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Only thing I know about RCS is that it has caused a few of my texts to never be sent. Other than that it has done nothing for me.