Security and privacy are two really big reasons I stay w/ the iPhone. It has flaws yes, but those are important to me. https://twitter.com/jaraszski/status/955548999037177856 …
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Replying to @emd
Did you know that iOS' SDK doesn't allow for the encryption of SMS messages? That's why Signal from OWS decided to remove fully working SMS encryption capabilities and only accept encrypted data messages globally -- because iOS refuses to allow privacy and security of SMS.
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SMS can’t be encrypted until every SMS client supports that encryption. I don’t have many green friends…mostly iMessage, which is encrypted. And I could use Signal on iOS, but none of the folks I chat w/ have it so…
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Replying to @emd
Signal had encrypted SMS working. They had to turn it off so Signal would work with iPhone users who don't have privacy & security options, putting all others at risk because of weak iOS.
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Replying to @cqwww
How can a standard SMS client decrypt the message? Must be a bunch of knowledge here I don’t know. Got some links on it so I can learn?
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Replying to @emd
Not a standard SMS client. Signal, from OWS, did SMS end-to-end encryption. Worked for everyone but iPhone/iOS. They (sadly) turned SMS off to not confused privacy and security weak iOS users whom were not able to encrypt due to Apple's insistence to be able read all SMS msgs.
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Replying to @cqwww
There are more reasons than iOS on here: https://signal.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/ …. I read that differently than you, I guess.
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Replying to @emd
Well, #2 was the real reason. If iOS allowed privacy & security of SMS, I would bet you a bitcoin
@signalapp would still support SMS today. Metadata still exists over Google Cloud Messaging with Signal, it's just limited to one American company instead of all SMS towers.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Neither Google nor Apple has access to any metadata about who you are communicating with on Signal. GCM and APNs are only used for push notifications on Android and iOS respectively, and these are simple wake-up events with an empty payload.
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Replying to @signalapp @emd
Google doesn't know the telephone number/id you're sending the message to, or which number/unique identifier it's coming from? Where can I read about how they solved that?
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