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Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps... like Apple’s own iMessage.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  1. EU passes the chat interop legislation.
  2. Apple is forced to do RCS.
  3. ???
  4. Corpos that shout now declare victory.

First privacy, then USB, now RCS.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only thing I know about RCS is that it has caused a few of my texts to never be sent, because the "send as normal text if RCS doesn't work" also didn't work. Other than that it has done nothing for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see this happening. Apple to/from Android are the only texts that the government can easily snoop on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are mandated back doors in most message apps. Messages between different message systems are normally harder to read

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There are mandated back doors in most message apps.

Source?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RCS has an e2e encryption extension (created by Google)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

All currently available RCS implementations are proprietary, you can't trust the encryption if you can't verify it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Except the commenter above is talking about SMS/MMS which is not encrypted and very easy for a government to snoop on via the telecom company. You have no protections.