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Why in late 2019 would any company come up with a communication mechanism which doesn't use encryption?
by hsnewman 7y ago
Why in late 2019 would any company come up with a communication mechanism which doesn't use encryption?
- justAnotherNET 7y agoConsider the odds that no one at an engineering meeting brought this up. If we assume someone did (which is a safe assumption), now imagine what kind of company culture would reject something as obviously desirable to the user as E2E.
- toast0 7y agoThis is a GSMA developed standard that was started in 2007. It wasn't an unusual choice then. If they tried to add it now, it would push wide adoption even further back.
- nine_k 7y agoI suppose this is a rhetorical question? * With a free service, the data is the asset which the company obtains by offering the service. * With whatever service, the company may receive a subpoena, an NSL, etc. It's easier to comply when you have the data than to prove that you can't comply because you only transfer the encrypted packets, and have no way to bug the client devices, too. If you want end-to-end encryption, run your own Signal server, or something, and hope that you're flying below radars.
- wyldfire 7y ago> With a free service, the data is the asset which the company obtains by offering the service. RCS competes with iMessage and WhatsApp, which are both "free" services (IIRC WhatsApp business model is paid commercial messaging customers and iMessage business model is paid devices). Both of those offer encryption features.