Comment on Google Messages just flicked the switch on end-to-end encryption for all RCS and group chats

• mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For good reason. Honestly anyone pushing for RCS is an idiot or doesn’t understand what they are pushing for.

  Among many issues (including E2E missing by default) the idea of giving any control back to carriers is just stupid.

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’d rather have the yellow billion dollar company have full control instead of the cyan one? Who cares, it makes no difference! 🤷

    At least RCS is a standard. That’s not a big plus in this particular case, but it is one, and none of the other walled gardens have an equivalent thing to even bring to the table.

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    • TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Google RCS and RCS the standard are not the same thing. Third party apps are not allowed to plug into Google RCS. This is why you won’t find any RCS open source alternative for Google Messages.

      Google is just trying to promote their own walled garden under the guise of an open standard. If they were genuine about this they should allow you to just use any replacement, just like you can replace the stock SMS app on Android.

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  • MKBandit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The carriers don’t control RCS they kept trying but gave up

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  • Ubermeisters@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Look at that ratio, must be a lot of us idiots around huh

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