More importantly, even if the standard wasn't required to have lawful intercepts, carriers want would provide it. They aren't in the business of making legal st

More importantly, even if the standard wasn't required to have lawful intercepts, carriers want would provide it. They aren't in the business of making legal stands to protect privacy. There is a new standard to replace SMS in flight called RCS. Arguably, this makes the world better -- SMS sucks, RCS brings a lot of the iMessage features to standard carrier messaging. But therein lines the problem: it's carrier-controlled, and carriers want lawful intercept. So, the standard does not call for end-to-end encryption and it is not implemented. I still think this is a better state of the world than SMS, but it's pretty depressing that it's 2019 and e2e encryption isn't the default. I understand why it isn't when there's government interests in play, but it's still depressing.