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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 1 year ago (13 children)

it sucks when Apple gimps file sharing for everyone by refusing to use standards

Fixed it for you. If Apple supported RCS this wouldn't happen. But I guess you prefer to follow Tim Cook's monopolistic solution and buy them an iPhone /s.

[–] RandomBit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (12 children)

RCS doesn't have a cross-platform end-to-end encryption solution. For cross-platform communication, cross-platform 3rd party solutions such as Signal work well.

[–] pivotraze@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

RCS would still be a benefit to incorporate without the E2E solution, as it would improve nearly every other aspect of communication over SMS/MMS.

[–] RandomBit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I 100% agree that Apple wrong for not supporting RCS (and I am an iPhone user). However, I personally choose to only use E2E for my communication be that iMessage or Signal.

[–] pivotraze@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, I agree and would love to do the same. However, moving any of my family who currently uses Android over to any other platform is impossible. I can't tell my wife I won't text her anymore unless she uses it. That won't go over well hahah

Where possible, I use encrypted communication, but if doing so would result in me cutting off a friend or family member, I won't do so.

However, I would love to be able to text Android users without crappy quality and the other limitations of SMS/MMS.

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