Google Makes All RCS Messages Encrypted; Check out the Details! Google Makes All RCS Messages Encrypted; Check out the Details! | Beebom
What are your views on this development?
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RCS is still a proprietary vendor/carrier walled garden that should be avoided and die a death worse than SMS.
Not to mention the Qualcomm stack on Android is a bunch of native code in the system telephony stack, the absolute best place to process arbitrary content from strangers.
My DivestOS has purposely removed RCS support for years for these reasons: Scripts/Common/Deblob.sh · master · DivestOS Mobile / DivestOS-Build · GitLab
Go use a real messenger that is independent of such proprietary (carrier) ilk: Messengers - DivestOS Mobile
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What do you mean by Qualcomm stack? Isn’t that separated through confined hardware abstraction layers?
As long as there is no free & open source RCS app and it’s just a Google proprietary protocol like now (de facto) I will not use it. Sticking to Signal for 1:1 chats, Element for public chatrooms, and Whatsapp as a backup for people that don’t have Signal.
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I thought only Google Pixel did that.