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iOS messaging has end to end encryption by default, when that is enabled the messages are shown within a "blue bubble". When this is not possible, it falls bac
by vmception 4y ago
iOS messaging has end to end encryption by default, when that is enabled the messages are shown within a "blue bubble".
When this is not possible, it falls back to sending normal SMS, which can be read in plain text by third parties in the middle and has no encryption, when that occurs messages are shown within a "green bubble".
Therefore, messaging android users shows a "green bubble". People know its both an android user and unencrypted.
This also results in a worse messaging experience for the iOS users, as all of their other rich media is disabled and handicapped as long as that conversation involves an android user.
- howinteresting 4y agoThe thing is, zero people I regularly chat with (SF bay area) use iMessage. Most people in my US friend group use Signal, the rest use Facebook, and many of my international contacts use Whatsapp.
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoHmm, I have never heard anyone mention "knowing its... unencrypted" I doubt most iOS users would care about that, realistically. Note that the experience is bad in both directions (at least for me in Signal on Android I get to endure a lot of 'so and so loved whole-text-of-previous-message' instead of just a heart emoji - I see that GOOG has improved things Messages recently to parse those, at least)
- vmception 4y agoRight it’s just a convenient scape goat now, for an existing disdain against those people