Comment on Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon.

MR_GABARISE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  rcs is not e2e encrypted afaik

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  • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?”

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  • tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Google implementation of rcs is E2EE.

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