"Most modern consumer #messaging platforms...support end-to-end #encryption, but users today are limited to communicating with contacts who use the same platform. This is why Google is strongly supportive of regulatory efforts that require #interoperability" https://security.googleblog.com/2023/07/an-important-step-towards-secure-and.html

Does anyone know of any #FreeSoftware implementations of the #RCS encrypted messaging protocol? There is the nine year old
https://github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta I wonder if that is usable?

#E2EE#Android #messaging

"[Vincent] Ramos makes some very incriminating statements to the FBI in an undercover operation, and they arrest him. And they say; you need to put a backdoor into Phantom Secure, and let us read all of the messages of the 10,000 users (or whatever) ... or we're going to arrest you."

#JosephCox, 2024

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163389/joseph-cox-dark-wire-fbi-phone-startup-anom-criminals-secure-messaging-decoder-interview

And we know that nothing like this has happened to the people behind the hosted Signal services, because ... ?

#encryption #messaging#Signal