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FBI warns users to encrypt text messages for cybersecurity. Here's how to do it (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 5 days ago by weirdbeardgame to c/technology

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[–] Zak 30 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Messages between two Apple devices are safe, and messages between two Android devices are safe, but messages between an Apple device and and Android device are vulnerable.

This is not very accurate. Some Android devices come with Google Messages, which will use Google's encrypted version of RCS if the carrier supports it. People who don't know what all of that means should not assume their messages are encrypted.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 1 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Anyone know if Google Voice is encrypted? I can read copies of my texts online so I'm thinking no. I've felt like the service has outlived its usefulness for me and that would be the final straw.

[–] Zak 2 points 5 days ago

I see no reason to believe that it is.

I find it useful when outside the USA to be able to communicate with American luddites who refuse to install messaging apps.

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