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  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I don’t understand why the article writes that iMessage is the only way for encrypted messaging between Android and iOS. I can thing of several off the top of my head:

    • Matrix
    • Signal
    • WhatsApp
    • Facebook Messanger (very soon)
    • Threema
    • Telegram
    • Viber
    • Line
    • Skype

    And there are surly more …

    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

      telegram is not encrypted by default, and does its best to make you forget to enable it for each individual contact. if you want to do a group chat, you’re out of luck.

      Telegram is only (partially) secure for pedantic power users, which most people aren’t.

        • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          11 months ago

          so, relative to pretty much all other messaging services, it might as well not be.

          You’re saying “by default not everyone can read your messages, only you, the recipient, telegram themselves and anyone who they might decide to share them with, with neither your consent, nor knowledge”

          When compared to “nobody except you and the recipient” that becomes effectively equivalent to “nothing”.

          also, not end-to-end ever when it comes to group chats

    • Keith@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Text messaging market in EU is totally different from in the United States. This is because US texting was cheap always— not so with the EU.

      • taanegl@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        11 months ago

        TBF Europeans just went wild with SMS. Omg. Nowadays it’s all WhatsApp, which I am not happy with.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    At Apple, we build our products and services with industry-leading privacy and security technologies designed to give users control of their data and keep personal information safe.

    At Apple, we build our products and services with industry-leading vendor locking tactics to distance our brand from other lesser ones.

    We took steps to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials in order to gain access to iMessage.

    We’re not letting anyone breach this walled garden, but nice try.

    These techniques posed significant risks to user security and privacy, including the potential for metadata exposure and enabling unwanted messages, spam, and phishing attacks. We will continue to make updates in the future to protect our users.

    By using these tactics we can keep our users away from solutions that have any interoperability whatsoever and keep promoting decade-old features as new, as our sheep ahem user base don’t know any better.