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tangential, but interesting how they choose to be loud about this, yet don't say or do anything about imessage downgrading to unencrypted sms with anything outs
by pxoe 3y ago
tangential, but interesting how they choose to be loud about this, yet don't say or do anything about imessage downgrading to unencrypted sms with anything outside imessage. no warning about a less secure message being sent, no byline that'd be like 'unencrypted text' or like a tiny little open padlock or something, no effort to make messages encrypted where it could be possible, not even a 'snarky ad campaign' or something that'd point out that 'green bubbles? sms? that's insecure'. it's almost like... "encryptedness" and "privacy" isn't really the point. it's more of a 'marketing point' and 'ecosystem dynamics' - lock-in, network effect, and all that. actually implementing outside encrypted messages for their users? mmmeh.