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I could be wrong re: what OP intended, but "open standard" doesn't imply non-encrypted.

• pilsetnieks 8y ago
  It's encrypted in transit but not end-to-end encrypted.
  • davvolun 8y ago
    Obviously responding to: > Yes, I'd much prefer that Google and the carriers both have the opportunity to read all my communications instead of one or the other. And I'm saying, regardless of the current implementation, just because it's an open standard, doesn't mean it can't be encrypted -- either in-transit or end-to-end. Asymmetric cryptography, e.g. the TLS standard, is an open standard but secure (re: encrypted).