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Google Messages wasn't end to end encrypted?!
by drcongo 5y ago
Google Messages wasn't end to end encrypted?!
- smt88 5y agoSMS/MMS have never been encrypted. Messages is only able to add encryption because of RCS, a new cellular messaging protocol.
- approxim8ion 5y agoUntil very recently, it was just SMS. So no, far from it. Then they switched to RCS where available (although it might have been opt-in), but the encryption was not implemented. Now it looks like it is.
- drcongo 5y agoThanks, I hadn't realised it was just SMS.
- pmlnr 5y agoUh... no SMS is not encrypted.
- drcongo 5y agoAnd to think you could have politely explained to someone who has never owned an android device that Google Messages is what Google calls SMS for some reason, like the other replies did. But you chose this response, which I think says more about you than me.