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Data Protection Day: The end of SMS, a good thing for privacy?

This happened on January 28 18E European days to protect personal data. This is an opportunity to return to the RCS protocol, adopt by Apple and already be on Android. Its purpose is to change SMS, which offers no protection of messages content …

This year has finally seen a new nail in the SMS coffin: by adopting appleapple RCS By iOSiOS 18, the iPhone eventually is compatible with the new standard, already on smartphones AndroidAndroid. But what is this new technology, and why can it sign the end? TextText ?

The first SMS was sent on December 3, 1992, and was not the center of security concerns. This protocol is not secret, everything is clearly sent. Just stop messages to be able to read content. At the time of artificial intelligence and rapidly advanced algorithms, malicious people can easily analyze large quantities of dedicated messages and cross them with other personal data. It is also due to lack of security that more and more sites are advised not to use SMS to verify two factories, and suggest to be used. ApplicationApplication Single use codes breed.

Google RCS vs Apple Isemicage

In addition, SMS is extremely fundamental. Each message is limited to 160 characters, and no functionality was found on its requests MessagingMessaging Like WhatsAppWhatsAppText format, sending files, group conversations … Apple got the parade by adding features to the IMSEG, but it was limited to the iPhone. This is the cause of a war of blue and green bubbles, green bubbles show that the message was sent by SMS because the user is on Android …

In parallel, GoogleGoogle He prepared its solution on Android, called RCS. This is a protocol that goes through the Internet, whether it be through a mobile network or by Wi-fiWi-fi. It brings all the expected features with modern messaging, including reading, sending multimedia files to high. ResolutionResolutionReal Time dialog, file transfer and group discussion. And above all, the RCS is encrypted from beginning to end. This means that only you and your representatives can read the content of the messages.

Apple is still hanging

Why not just WhatsApp, signal or use TelegramTelegram ? The advantage of the RCS is that it was adopted as a standard. This means that most mobile phones are already compatible. No need to install a third party application, or it is important to remember what messaging every representative likes to use. You can easily use the basic messaging of your smartphone. Even it is already activated by default on most devices, and will be used if it is activated in your representative.

Finally, this is not true at all. Because if there is a brand that doesn’t play the game, this is Apple. Since version 18 of the iOS, the iPhone is now compatible with the RCS. But, because there is always the same, but, two, it is not so easy. Although all Android smartphones with Google Messages can activate messages RC, on the iPhone, each operator will have to activate RC on his network. Thus, SFR, Boygus Telecom and Free have activated the RC, but Orange Operators equipped with the iPhone have not yet accessed it. The latter indicated that the RCS should reach the first half of 2025. In addition, the iPhone is not yet compatible with EncryptionEncryption Eliminate from the beginning for RCS. However, this is the primary interest of the protocol!

According to CnbcIn the end, the encryption should reach the iPhone “in the coming months”. In the meantime, all RCS messages exchanged between the iPhone and Android are clearly sent. So it is better to use third party applications that connect encryption. Once Apple has added encryption for RCS to the iPhone, it’s time to think about burying SMS.

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