Google message and the RCS

[dngray (Daniel Gray)]

@xe3

Google to Samsung or Samsung to Samsung RCS will not be E2EE

On that note Samsung are replacing their application with Google Messages.

https://9to5google.com/2022/02/14/google-messages-samsung-galaxy-s22-us/

and they have a help guide on it:

Change the default messaging app on your Galaxy phone

@xe3

So it really comes down to choosing the lesser of two evils. Do you want an open source app you can trust that uses a form of communication you can’t trust, or do you want an app you can’t trust from a company you can’t trust but where at least some % of your conversations would be E2EE. What matters most to you?

In this specific case it’s either a case of open source and no E2EE which equals no privacy, or Google’s Messages /w RCS and E2EE for users which also have it, so there is some privacy there.

Open source SMS applications give no privacy on a network where the carrier sees and can do anything with your messages anyway.