Google just announced that all RCS conversations in Messages are now fully end-to-end encrypted, even in group chats. RCS stands for Rich Communication Services and is replacing traditional text and picture messaging, providing you with more dynamic and secure features. With RCS enabled, you can share high-res photos and videos, see typing indicators for your...

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Google just announced that all RCS conversations in Messages are now fully end-to-end encrypted, even in group chats. RCS stands for Rich Communication Services and is replacing traditional text and picture messaging, providing you with more dynamic and secure features. With RCS enabled, you can share high-res photos and videos, see typing indicators for your…

  • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m not qualified to determine personally the situation of signal, or any other app. But I don’t need to. There are several experts who are and the fact that multiple of them have analyzed and evaluated an app as signal should give us a lot of confidence in their conclusions.

    We need to trust experts, and I don’t mean individual experts, but the experts as a whole, especially when they verify each other’s work. This is what it’s about. You can’t do everything yourself, you got to trust some form of collective.