Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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when you send an SMS, all of the metadata imaginable is retained by default... as is the content of the message, in many cases.
besides law enforcement and other government agencies, numerous telco employees also have access to this data, and, in many countries at least, some of it is also sold to data brokers.
you can't get much less private than SMS.
Yeah thats all correct. Its an unencryted message system so just assume everything over the channel is being mined or stored for later.
SMS & email are antiquated services, this is why Protonmail is rad as they're making a program which was never designed for encryption, encrypted. But the thing is even encrypted data is being stored in hopes of being decrypted by quantum computers in the near future...
Unfortunately many services block protonmail by default, or mark it as junk. Hopefully this will change.
Probably plays into their purchase of SimpleLogin, seems to never be an issue if you setup your own domain name with them.