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Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS
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this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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SMS is by far the worst standard. If you care about privacy use Signal or even WhatsApp. They both are far superior.
Thanks, yes SMS is insecure, but its also not routing through Google, so it is already more secure than RCS.
No, it's just
If Google could prove that messages are E2EE then I don't give a shit who it routes through, they can't read it.
If we're going only on security then Google Messages is a way better choice since they use Signal E2EE.
SMS has no encryption at all so Google, your carrier, and everyone in between can spy on the contents of all your SMS messages.
With RCS Google is only getting the metadata and no one can just listen in on your chats