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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Build WeChat for the West by CarriersSuck on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:17PM (#19821877)
If RCS is a standard what's stopping someone from writing an app that encrypts your plaintext? Sure, it'll leak meta data, but at least the actual plaintext is encrypted.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Build WeChat for the West by fabrice_d on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:55PM (#19823802)
Nothing, but you need all your contacts to use a compatible client. I really hope something like https://messaginglayersecurity.rocks/ takes off and that we end up with good e2e interop without having to rely on a single vendor.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Build WeChat for the West by buzzerbetrayed on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:54PM (#19822175)
Couldn’t you just do the same thing with sms today?
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Build WeChat for the West by parliament32 on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:33PM (#19822489)
Already done ~10 years ago, it was TextSecure, the predecessor to Signal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextSecure

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