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by ThatPlayer 1433 days ago
WhatsApp is avoidable with this same law forcing interoperability with other messaging clients. Facebook's app is avoidable with a browser and Facebook.com . Actually WhatsApp's app is avoidable in the same way.
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tekknik 1432 days ago
They’re all avoidable by just not using them. Use that fancy text message feature of your phone to communicate. 30 years ago these apps didn’t exist and people somehow continued to exist without them.
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hammyhavoc 1432 days ago
Implying SMS is anywhere near comparable to modern-day IM is hilarious, it isn't even encrypted. RCS makes SMS look archaic.

Future is Matrix.

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tekknik 1431 days ago
Because everybody needs their conversations encrypted. What was that liberal saying, what are you hiding? Most people are not targeted by some state actor
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hammyhavoc 1431 days ago
Dude, get with the times. With a few bucks of hardware, anybody can intercept SMS all day long, that's why 2FA via SMS is considered bad form.
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tekknik 1429 days ago
Ok, now tell me why i want to snoop on my neighbors SMS? Or why they want to see me asking my wife what to make for dinner?

Are you aware of man in the middle attacks? Do you think encrypted channels are safe from state actors?

Also most phones don’t even use SMS anymore, and instead go through an encrypted server to make it so you can hide your traffic from your neighbors.

Get with reality, not everybody wants or needs what your selling here.

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hammyhavoc 1429 days ago
It isn't about neighbours, it is about criminals.

Of course I am aware of this.

Spend $16 and sit in a coffee shop for an hour, guarantee you'll intercept plenty of SMS: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/16-at...

Not selling anything here considering every reasonable solution to this problem is something offered for free, or can be mitigated by a user with FOSS.

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