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Facebook has never cared about your privacy. E2E encryption should be a requirement for any communications app. Not a half truth.

I hope people begin to take notice.

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People mostly don't care.

Google is in the middle of rolling RCS out and that fact that E2E encryption isn't part of the basic spec is appalling. I don't know how a developer could work on something like this at Google and feel good about themselves.

What is RCS?

It's the next gen SMS.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/17/18681573/google-rcs-chat-...

https://jibe.google.com/

And open source allowing for independent verification. We have tons of good open source apps like Signal and Matrix, why would we ever need one controlled by facebook of all companies?

> why would we ever need one controlled by facebook of all companies?

The value of WhatsApp is not that its technically better than Signal or Matrix, the value is that there are 1B+ users.

Because Matrix has terrible UX and its apps have terrible GUIs. And because Signal has this weird hangup about federation, requiring a closed server, being super paranoid secure on one side and expecting that amount of "trust" on the other. (I call it a weird hangup because I've only read bad explanations and evasive answers about why this is)

Give me Matrix with Signal's UX, and I'd be all over it :-)

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