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Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe After ‘Worst Hack in Our Nation’s History’ (gizmodo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

New Clipper Chip mandatory in new phones for "security" 😉

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm new to technology, is this good?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

I coulda told you that for free. And sooner

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ive been slowly hearing about this over the last week or so, and I couldnt tell if it was real news or just over exaggerated.

And everyone has been on an on about iphone to android RCS, but no word on if anything is being done to fix the vulnerability.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

What vulnerability? I thought RCS is encrypted on transit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

RCS doesn't really do a whole lot of anything. It's a step up from SMS/MMS, but not by much.

All the features people think they mean when they're talking about RCS are proprietary Google extensions that only work if you go through Google's servers. They're basically exactly the same as Apple putting iMessage on top; Apple just brags about it while Google tries to trick you into thinking incompatibility is someone else's fault for not giving them control.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Usually I’ll defend Apple on this, but yes it’s a step up from SMS, and Apple is a big reason RCS hadnt been widely adopted as a replacement, and incremented to include more features.

I’m definitely on Googles side here: years of no one doing anything until “fine, I’ll take care it myself”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Apple didn't bother because it sucks. It's not an actual solution (or path to one) for messaging not to be a dumpster fire.

Google "did it itself" exclusively for control. It's exactly the same as their browser behavior.

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