If you’re that concerned with security, shouldn’t you be using Signal and try to convince others to do so? iMessage is E2E encrypted but Signal is platform-agnostic and has better security/privacy.
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olympicyes@lemmy.world 11 months agoGroup chats in RCS weren’t even end-to-end encrypted on Android until August of this year. Green texts are a security risk.
ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
olympicyes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t care but you have to convince Apple. People really pile on for the most trivial of comments.
ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I can’t speak for the others, but I’m just curious as to why iMessage’s quirks are heavily put up with. With the options of messaging apps nowadays, the “green bubble” stuff seems like an arbitrary problem.
Sure, it’s stock software, but plenty are willing to switch off Edge/Safari for Chromium browsers. I understand that there’s strong social pressure to conform to using the same messaging service.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Network effect. It’s easier to convince the one green text to switch than to convince everyone to switch to an alternative. Even in my one immediate family we only have one Android. As a result we have two group threads, one of which excludes that number so images and videos will go through at full quality. Message is the default so people use it. I’m aware that’s not the case in other countries.
SpookySnek@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Okay so now that it has encryption, what is the security risk?
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
😂, a security risk 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Are you Edward Snowden that you think it’s such a massive risk?
You are delusional. I use text messages all the time and there is zero risk.
tristar@lemmyfly.org 11 months ago
Is there zero risk or do you think there is zero risk? Text messages can absolutely be intercepted by your service provider
danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t you think you’re a bit paranoid? Does the service provider care to know that you sent a message to your friend saying “great party last”? Or to your wife, “pick up bread and milk please”?
I’m quite sure they are not wasting their time doing that.
If what you need to say is so secret, you should not be using iMessage, SMS or WhatsApp but something stronger like Signal, Matrix etc
tristar@lemmyfly.org 11 months ago
I don’t think it’s paranoid to not want any intermediary to know what you’re talking about, even if all you’re talking about is innocuous things like groceries.
Besides, they don’t have to “waste time” on anything. They’ve got computers to collect it all.
Of course, like you said, Signal or Matrix are potential solutions for that, but you still need to get both sides to agree on using them. SMS have the advantage that everyone has a phone number and can thus use them. Upgrading to RCS will secure this insecure-yet-very-popular medium.