Iranian state television on Tuesday afternoon urged the country’s public to remove the messaging app WhatsApp from their smart phones, alleging without offering any evidence the app gathered user information to send to Israel
I used to think that too, but it’s so far only Google Messages and Apple iMessage?
GSMA only added E2EE in RCS recently, Google is still using their own thing on top and Apple nothing yet. You have to be a member of GSMA to read the whole spec.
Why use proprietary when standards work just fine, now that apple finally supports RCS?
Because RCS is a closed standard. I’m not downloading Google Messages (or any closed source app for that matter) to use an “open standard”.
I used to think that too, but it’s so far only Google Messages and Apple iMessage? GSMA only added E2EE in RCS recently, Google is still using their own thing on top and Apple nothing yet. You have to be a member of GSMA to read the whole spec.