Feeling brave? Living in the US or Germany? RCS might be for you.

Non-Allegiance related. High probability of spam. Pruned regularly.
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peet
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https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/3 ... ght-now/#1

If you feel brave you might want to turn on RCS (kind a sms 2.0 / chatapp thingy)
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I've never turned it on, it was enabled by the system itself.

I ran into a problems sending messages, I was not even sure if messages have been sent. Back to old SMS/MMS.
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why not just use whatsapp or whatever? it's probably still gonna be better than whatever this new thing is
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If the telco's were not handling customers as lemons which should be squeezed to the max, Whatsapp and the likes would have no chance. I remember the time that 1 sms/text message was like 25 cents, and MMS like 40 cent a piece (MMS is being phased out here). When BlackBerry Ping arrived which was popular for a while. Whatsapp arrived at the right time (multi platform) and virtually everyone in MyLittleCountry uses it. Minor ripples in the water when Facebook bought it.

RCS will likely be another cash generator, with no end-to-end encryption (nice to generate personalized ads and even usable in China). With Googles track record of terminated apps I don't think I will use it very fast. Also no iPhone support?
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If you don't encrypt your messages, you can't get hacked:
https://srlabs.de/bites/rcs-hacking/

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The Escapist (Justin Emerson) @ Dec 21 2010, 02:33 PM:
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Even some end to end encrypted chat apps have a flaw called invisible group member. Someone converts a 1 on 1 chat into an invisible group, add a hidden 3th person. The third person can than see everything in this group.
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