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Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android by freedomben on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:34PM (#38535038)
RCS can be encrypted. Whether Apple chooses to do so is yet to be seen of course, but I'm guessing they will reserve encryption for "blue bubbles."
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Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android by olliej on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:57PM (#38540339)
Yes, as a non-standard google extension that is not guaranteed to be present.

To illustrate the issue, imagine apple added support for "encrypted RCS" that was just iMessage's message blob stuck in an RCS blob (this is essentially how google's encrypted messaging solution works). Would you be ok with that being presented as "encrypted RCS"?

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