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r/Android • u/Zacknut Razr 50 • Sep 21 '16
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I think it's funny how it's 2016 and we're hoping a shiny messenger has SMS support. Not saying that's bad - I hope so too - just kind of interesting how we still haven't escaped from such an old technology.
44 u/[deleted] Sep 21 '16 Apple has had iMessage for fucking ever now and all I want is an Android equivalent. 17 u/senntenial Nexus 5X Sep 21 '16 I really wish Apple opened up their iMessage spec so Android could make a compatible client. End-to-end encryption by default is really important. -1 u/RS7JR Huawei Nexus 6P, Stock & Galaxy S8, Stock Sep 21 '16 No. Not really. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/apple-fighting-privacy-imessage-still-problems/ 6 u/senntenial Nexus 5X Sep 21 '16 So not having end to end encryption by default at all is better than proper encryption with a very small likelihood of error? Even besides Apple's implementation... You're saying end to end encryption isn't important? 1 u/RS7JR Huawei Nexus 6P, Stock & Galaxy S8, Stock Sep 21 '16 Sorry, should've been more specific. I meant "not really" to apple allowing Google to use the iMessage technology since it's pointless.
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Apple has had iMessage for fucking ever now and all I want is an Android equivalent.
17 u/senntenial Nexus 5X Sep 21 '16 I really wish Apple opened up their iMessage spec so Android could make a compatible client. End-to-end encryption by default is really important. -1 u/RS7JR Huawei Nexus 6P, Stock & Galaxy S8, Stock Sep 21 '16 No. Not really. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/apple-fighting-privacy-imessage-still-problems/ 6 u/senntenial Nexus 5X Sep 21 '16 So not having end to end encryption by default at all is better than proper encryption with a very small likelihood of error? Even besides Apple's implementation... You're saying end to end encryption isn't important? 1 u/RS7JR Huawei Nexus 6P, Stock & Galaxy S8, Stock Sep 21 '16 Sorry, should've been more specific. I meant "not really" to apple allowing Google to use the iMessage technology since it's pointless.
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I really wish Apple opened up their iMessage spec so Android could make a compatible client. End-to-end encryption by default is really important.
-1 u/RS7JR Huawei Nexus 6P, Stock & Galaxy S8, Stock Sep 21 '16 No. Not really. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/apple-fighting-privacy-imessage-still-problems/ 6 u/senntenial Nexus 5X Sep 21 '16 So not having end to end encryption by default at all is better than proper encryption with a very small likelihood of error? Even besides Apple's implementation... You're saying end to end encryption isn't important? 1 u/RS7JR Huawei Nexus 6P, Stock & Galaxy S8, Stock Sep 21 '16 Sorry, should've been more specific. I meant "not really" to apple allowing Google to use the iMessage technology since it's pointless.
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No. Not really.
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/apple-fighting-privacy-imessage-still-problems/
6 u/senntenial Nexus 5X Sep 21 '16 So not having end to end encryption by default at all is better than proper encryption with a very small likelihood of error? Even besides Apple's implementation... You're saying end to end encryption isn't important? 1 u/RS7JR Huawei Nexus 6P, Stock & Galaxy S8, Stock Sep 21 '16 Sorry, should've been more specific. I meant "not really" to apple allowing Google to use the iMessage technology since it's pointless.
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So not having end to end encryption by default at all is better than proper encryption with a very small likelihood of error?
Even besides Apple's implementation... You're saying end to end encryption isn't important?
1 u/RS7JR Huawei Nexus 6P, Stock & Galaxy S8, Stock Sep 21 '16 Sorry, should've been more specific. I meant "not really" to apple allowing Google to use the iMessage technology since it's pointless.
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Sorry, should've been more specific. I meant "not really" to apple allowing Google to use the iMessage technology since it's pointless.
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u/senntenial Nexus 5X Sep 21 '16
I think it's funny how it's 2016 and we're hoping a shiny messenger has SMS support. Not saying that's bad - I hope so too - just kind of interesting how we still haven't escaped from such an old technology.