![]() ![]() Google’s “Help #GetTheMessage” campaign pushes users towards Signal and WhatsApp, and this would certainly be my advice. “Now we’re learning about an entire ecosystem of companies that anyone could use to silently intercept text messages intended for other mobile users.” “SMS text messages were already the weakest link securing just about anything online,” Brian Krebs warned last year. And that would resolve 99% of the SMS problem. And it would turn messaging from multi-hop to point-to-point. But it would mean more advanced levels of security and encryption of your data than SMS, even if not end-to-end. It would not enable end-to-end encryption between iPhones and Androids, though, without much deeper integration, as envisaged by new regulation under debate in Europe. Apple may say that they're doing this to help people, but the moves clearly track their competitive interests.”Īpple adopting RCS within iMessage would make for a more feature-reach cross-OS experience. Apple has every incentive to use their dominant platform position to interfere with how our apps and other apps work, which they regularly do to preference their own. which is why iMessage is the most used messaging service in the US. “iMessage is a key linchpin of their ecosystem,” Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg said of Apple last year. ![]() And while that profit motivation works both ways, it’s not only Google that has attacked Apple’s stance on messaging. Keeping families inside the iMessage bubble meant parents co-opting kids into its ecosystem. Last year, it was reported that Apple’s stubbornness on RCS was profit-driven. these are complex issues and it may be impossible to fully compensate for the inherent weaknesses of the system.” “There are a number of inherent weaknesses mean that, where the value of the message content is of interest to bad actors, they are increasingly attempting to exploit SMS.” And while “mobile telecoms companies are aware of the problems with SMS and are actively working to close vulnerabilities. SMS technology “was never intended to be used to transmit high risk content,” warns the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre. ![]() Encryption and secure messaging is finally making some headway whilst making a stamp on how we will message contacts going forward.” “Once the go to of messaging,” says ESET’s Jake Moore, “SMS texting is slowing down at a tremendous rate and left to send postal updates and some one time passcodes. Users are well-advised to steer clear of using SMS for anything other than the most benign of messages. SMS messages travel in relatively open-form and are wide open to interception and abuse. “iPhones use outdated tech for group conversations with Android, so you can’t leave the chat-even when you want to.”īut the security issues are very real. “Apple turns texts between iPhones and Android phones into SMS and MMS,” Google says, “out-of-date technologies from the 90s and 00s.” The group experience when it crosses operating systems is also dire. Exchanging rich messaging, sharing videos, emoji responses. The major driver towards RCS interoperability between Android and iOS is functionality rather than security. ![]() “I don’t hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point,” Tim Cook told an event this week in response to a question on iMessage and RCS, suggesting instead that “I would love to convert you to an iPhone.” And when the questioner complained this impacts texting with his mother, he was told to “buy your mom an iPhone.” But they can fix it by switching from SMS/MMS to RCS.”īut the Apple is clearly not for turning. “The bad experience you get when texting Android users is created by Apple. “Apple should fix what’s broken,” it says. Google is now on a mission to embarrass/shame Apple into adopting RCS within iMessage. MORE FROM FORBES This Is The Best Way To Cheat At Wordle By Zak Doffman And then, critically, by introducing end-to-end encryption. First by taking over responsibility for driving RCS adoption across its user base. The carriers were slowly deploying SMS v2, known as RCS or Rich Communication Services, but that still relied on the archaic SMS architecture that bounced from carrier to carrier, exposing data to all along the way. Google had no real alternative to iMessage. Until fairly recently, there was no solution to this. ![]()
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