Google takes first major step for E2EE interoperability across all messaging apps (APK teardown)
Google takes first major step for E2EE interoperability across all messaging apps (APK teardown)
The Google Messages app now features some early signs of work towards supporting Messaging Layer Security (MLS) for group E2EE chats.
Google’s work could encourage the adoption of MLS, much as it did with RCS.
How can you say what Google has done is "encouraging RCS"? They literally monopolised it.
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9 0 ReplyWhat??
The RCS API on Android is only available to Google Messages and whomever Google allows (like Samsung Messages when they existed). This is the reality.
If the RCS API was truly open there would be an explosion of FOSS alternatives to Google's spyware.
5 1 ReplyRCS has been around since 2010
15 years and it's still problematic? Sounds like something that just needs to be let go.
Stop pushing this garbage that's tied to hardware/sim/phone number on us. What value is that for the end user, seriously? Why would an end user today want a messenger that's tied to a phone number?
Fully-functional, cross-platform, network-based, open-source instant messaging has been available (even on mobile) since 2009, maybe earlier.
What I always ask about RCS: who benefits today from a messaging system that's hard-bound to a phone number?
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Except it's not all messaging apps cause google messages is the only android messaging app with rcs support
15 1 ReplyExcept it is because the article is about mls and not rcs
12 2 ReplyDo we have any reason to think that Google would want to not collect data?
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Does this protocol actually mean arbitrary cross-app messaging or would that require the app developers to coordinate in some way?
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5 0 ReplyThey're working on something other protocols have had for years. 🤦🏼♂️
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How about we just get people to switch apps
3 6 ReplyWith you.
Fuck RCS. It's trash. Who benefits from a messenger, in the 21st century, that's tied to a phone number?
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