abrinael @ abrinael @lemmy.world

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I suspected this is what was going on because of the way some of the documents were worded, but I can’t find any direct reference to it. Do you have any? Re: storing encryption keys on google’s servers.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think it’s a replacement the way you want it to be. RCS requires Wi-Fi or data. SMS can go over voice channels. Google messages will fail back to SMS if data and Wi-Fi are not available.

It’s not plain text sms in either case. Apple just defaults to iMessage if the “text” is sent ios to ios. At least with signal there’s no chance of it failing back to sms.

I’d never give my kid an android phone because it would mean buying a brand new phone (instead of giving them my old iPhone XR from 2018) AND would mean I’d have to create some new account to manage the screen time equivalent on another ecosystem. I don’t like creating new accounts. I’ve moved from google accounts to Proton and don’t want to go back, either.

A lot of this stuff is highly suspicious considering how long governments have been trying to ban VPNs and encrypted messaging. At some point I’d expect someone in favor of bans to commit activities like this to push services to block and governments to ban.

I always wondered if the push against face masks had some element involved that wanted to ensure everyone could be identified more easily.