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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by venomsnake on Friday July 10, 2015 @12:10AM (#9862261)
Only if you have google services installed.
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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by aw3c2 on Friday July 10, 2015 @03:48AM (#9862755)
Without which TextSecure does not work.
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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by em3rgent0rdr on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:04AM (#9863091)
But what about the fork https://github.com/SMSSecure/SMSSecure which can be installed on via f-droid google-less phone?
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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by aw3c2 on Friday July 10, 2015 @03:21PM (#9866173)
It has no push messages which means bad experience for non-SMS messages.
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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by psykovsky on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:38AM (#9863165)
The fork only handles SMS/MMS. There are no IM features in it.
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