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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage (finance.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Signal or at least Telegram or Viber. Fuck WhatsApp, I'd like at least my messenger app to not belong to Facebook of all companies.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whatsapp is actually better than Telegram lol. You fell for Telegrams marketing lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least Telegram doesn't show your fucking phone number

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They can literally read your messages by default lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For now. Facebook has said that they plan to disable end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp at some point, so that you can receive messages from people using Facebook Messenger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This gets even better: WA listened to Putin and did not enable channels because it is popular among 40+ and teachers.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any FSB agent can connect any whatsapp message to person who wrote it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's just plain wrong.

Whatsapp is using the Signal Protocol.

To read your messages they need to get your phone. And now even your Backups are encrypted, so they can't read your Messages from there.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What encryption will do against someone who is in same group chat?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While it's all still E2E encrypted I don't really care what servers it goes though. If the UK/EU manage to get encryption blocked then I'll worry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

they still collect the messages' metadata and create a profile based on that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you use E2EE for all your chats? I think nearly nobody does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's on by default with every convo in WA.