Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Why use proprietary when standards work just fine, now that apple finally supports RCS?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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".

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

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