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Re:Briar Project by marcinzm on Sunday August 02, 2020 @07:05PM (#24032565)
Great unless you or someone you want to communicate with doesn't use an apple device. Which covers the majority of the population.

I've also had terrible reliability issue with imessage in the past, messages not delivering, not showing up, errors sending, showing up on one device but not another, etc. Was a mess that caused a lot of confusion.

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Re:Briar Project by overcast on Sunday August 02, 2020 @07:24PM (#24032673)
Guess it depends on your circles. For my group, everyone has an iPhone or a Mac. For the outliers, everyone has cell phones, and iMessage supports SMS.
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Re:Briar Project by marcinzm on Sunday August 02, 2020 @07:56PM (#24032827)
>iMessage supports SMS.

Which isn't end to end encrypted which defeats the whole point in terms of this conversation.

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Re:Briar Project by overcast on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:06AM (#24037234)
Thank you for identifying that.
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