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.

  • zepheriths@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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        1 year ago

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

    • macaroni1556@lemmy.ca
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      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.