[HN Gopher] RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption...
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       RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green
       bubble chats
        
       Author : MBCook
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-03-14 20:19 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | Jtsummers wrote:
       | From the subheading:
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       | > Lack of encryption was one SMS shortcoming that RCS was created
       | to solve.
       | 
       | No it was not. Google added encryption but it was not part of the
       | standard until recently. RCS itself was _not_ created, in part or
       | in whole, to provide E2EE. That it has it now is great (in the
       | standard, broad rollout still to come), but it should not be
       | misrepresented as some privacy-centric service.
        
       | pizzafeelsright wrote:
       | We don't have end to end because the powers that be won't allow
       | it.
       | 
       | There isn't any real technical hurdle.
        
         | wilg wrote:
         | And yet, they are allowing it.
        
           | cwillu wrote:
           | e2ee is largely subverted so long as manufacturers can push
           | updates that can't possibly be audited by anyone but the
           | manufacturers.
           | 
           | Security that relies on apple having a backbone is inherently
           | fragile.
        
       | jonathantf2 wrote:
       | Still can't use it on my iPhone though...
        
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