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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by atonse on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:01PM (#33183098)
RCS is not end-to-end encrypted. (But neither is SMS, I get it).

The fact that they're pushing a protocol in 2022 that has state-of-the-art design for fifteen years ago, is disingenuous, and is emblematic of all the chefs that have their hand in the pot with the Android ecosystem.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by codemac on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:14PM (#33183353)
> RCS is not end-to-end encrypted

RCS uses TLS, which is about as good as iMessage if you turn on iCloud Backups[0], as they just copy your private keys.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/security-of-icloud-...

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by deadmutex on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:10PM (#33183272)
> RCS is not end-to-end encrypted.

While this may be some technicality in a spec, the reality is that all the people I know using Android are enjoying end-to-end 1:1 encrypted conversations using Google Messages. Group messages were announced to get e2e encryption soon.

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