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Re:Google has started the global roll-out of its new Chat me... by davvolun on Monday April 23, 2018 @05:00PM (#16907338)
I could be wrong re: what OP intended, but "open standard" doesn't imply non-encrypted.
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Re:Google has started the global roll-out of its new Chat me... by pilsetnieks on Monday April 23, 2018 @06:36PM (#16908115)
It's encrypted in transit but not end-to-end encrypted.
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Re:Google has started the global roll-out of its new Chat me... by davvolun on Thursday April 26, 2018 @02:50PM (#16934487)
Obviously responding to:

> Yes, I'd much prefer that Google and the carriers both have the opportunity to read all my communications instead of one or the other.

And I'm saying, regardless of the current implementation, just because it's an open standard, doesn't mean it can't be encrypted -- either in-transit or end-to-end.

Asymmetric cryptography, e.g. the TLS standard, is an open standard but secure (re: encrypted).

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