Nemeski to [email protected]English • 1 month agoRCS update adds end-to-end encryption, Google and Apple confirm support9to5google.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down10
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-2•1 month agoI should hope signal adds sms support back with this.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoLogically that makes sense, as they removed SMS support due to some people not realising that using SMS was not secure/encrypted.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoWhy would it make sense? Currently on Android, RCS isn’t a system level thing like SMS is. So Signal won’t easily be able to pull it in. Unless they implement their own implementation of RCS and the Universal Profile.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoDidn’t say it would be easy, just that it would make sense if they wanted to add it back in if it supported encryption
I should hope signal adds sms support back with this.
Logically that makes sense, as they removed SMS support due to some people not realising that using SMS was not secure/encrypted.
Why would it make sense? Currently on Android, RCS isn’t a system level thing like SMS is. So Signal won’t easily be able to pull it in. Unless they implement their own implementation of RCS and the Universal Profile.
Didn’t say it would be easy, just that it would make sense if they wanted to add it back in if it supported encryption