GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to Android@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoApple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android userswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squareInnerScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-21 day agoSo we’re back to square one, five messengers and one which “can do anything”©®™ led by google. No thanks I’d rather let SMS be as it is. As far as I can see you can’t join the network without some kind of authorization (see rooted phones being unable to).
minus-squarebrax@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoWhat would be far better is RCS to be exempted from data usage so we can have a more secured protocol for standardized messaging.
minus-squarelka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·21 hours agoMy rooted Pixel 9 Pro has RCS enabled. Just needed the Play Integrity Fix patch installed through Magisk. Though I think Google is changing that in May, so we’ll see what happens.
minus-squareInnerScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 hours agoYeah you need a TrickyStore and a valid key, though my point is that they can pick and choose who can be an RCS client.
minus-squarelka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-220 hours agoYou don’t need Tricky Store to have functioning RCS (yet).
minus-squareInnerScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 hours agoIt’s going live in a few months iirc.
minus-squareTonyOstrich@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 hours agoThat’s the point of GSM standardizing the encryption method. Progress is slow until it isn’t. We have to start somewhere.
So we’re back to square one, five messengers and one which “can do anything”©®™ led by google. No thanks I’d rather let SMS be as it is.
As far as I can see you can’t join the network without some kind of authorization (see rooted phones being unable to).
What would be far better is RCS to be exempted from data usage so we can have a more secured protocol for standardized messaging.
My rooted Pixel 9 Pro has RCS enabled. Just needed the Play Integrity Fix patch installed through Magisk. Though I think Google is changing that in May, so we’ll see what happens.
Yeah you need a TrickyStore and a valid key, though my point is that they can pick and choose who can be an RCS client.
You don’t need Tricky Store to have functioning RCS (yet).
It’s going live in a few months iirc.
That’s the point of GSM standardizing the encryption method. Progress is slow until it isn’t. We have to start somewhere.