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Google Messages just flicked the switch on end-to-end encryption for all RCS and group chats

Google just announced that all RCS conversations in Messages are now fully end-to-end encrypted, even in group chats. RCS stands for Rich Communication Services and is replacing traditional text and picture messaging, providing you with more dynamic and secure features. With RCS enabled, you can share high-res photos and videos, see typing indicators for your...

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  • Yay, now all we have to do is use their shitty app to have access to it!

    • i'd rather write letters than using whatever messenger google comes up next season.

    • RCS is an open standard, anyone can implement it. Google just implements one such app. (Google also implements, uh... android... so bad news if you're trying to avoid Google and use an android)

      If you're still using SMS or MMS, it's all unencrypted, always.

      • Well, since Google has so far refused to allow anyone else to build apps for it, and none of the carriers seem to be willing to, that's exactly the problem.

        Open in name doesn't mean shit when there's no way to actually do so, and access is locked under Google's thumb. It's not like lemmy,, we can't community build this shit.

        And you can actually purge Google on Android. I've done it in the past, and likely will again. I still have devices that are Google free.

        But the point of my comment is that rcs is unavailable outside of what, messenger and samsung? Or is there a carrier that has their own app now?

        So the e2e is useless on top of that because it's being built on bullshit.

        Nobody uses sms/mms for secure messaging at all, never have that I know of. Rcs was never touted as being secure originally (unless I missed some hype Google was spinning), it was just supposed to be an improved standard that brought things forward a bit. But they're unwilling to meet it be an actual standard unless their finger is in every corner of it, and a closed source messenger app under their control negates any point to the e2e at all. So this is just empty bullshit until and unless they have their protocol audited and the results publicly released.

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