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Would you rather: insecure SMS in an open-source app, or RCS in Google Messages? (contact won't use Signal) (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/android@lemmy.world
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Trust me, I push Signal hard and even donate to it monthly. As I'm sure many of you know, there are always a few contacts who unfortunately refuse to use it.

In this case: do you prefer to use insecure SMS in something like QUIK SMS or Fossify Messages, or do you prefer to bite the Google bullet to get end-to-end encrypted messages (even if the metadata isn't encrypted)?

I can see good arguments for both sides, so I am curious what Lemmy's take is.

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[–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

RCS is trash.

For you downvoters, RCS violates the most fundamental rules of networking, which were established in the mid-80's: separate user ID, device ID, network physical ID and network Logical ID - which is why we have TCP/IP addresses which aren't tied to physical device ID.

RCS is backwards, by decades.

Fuck RCS - I will never use it.

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