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Dude, you are completely missing the point. All I am saying is that replacing a simple and well tested system with a complex and barely evaluated system is bad

• ChuckNorris89 5y ago
  >All I am saying is that replacing a simple and well tested system with a complex and barely evaluated system is bad for security. 1) Nobody is replacing MMS with WhatApp for you, you are free to use whatever alternative fits your needs best. 2) A system which almost nobody used because it was expensive to use in the beginning, insecure by today's standards, and doesn't serve the present day needs of consumers making it severely outdated, which is why phone users migrated in droves to alternatives like WhatsApp many years ago. If carriers and the 3GPP consortium wanted to keep MMS relevant, then they should have updated it to support encryption and higher definition multi-media, and carriers shouldn't have charged through the nose for the service, but the SW industry disrupted the telecom industry with much higher quality messaging apps that were also free, which deprecated carriers to be just dumb data pipes and made SMS/MMS mostly obsolete. >And for the record, ALMOST ALL recent high profile hacks were related to WhatsApp. That's needlessly exaggerating without posting any sources for such grave claims. Which "recent high profile whatsapp hacks"?