> The most popular messenger app in Switzerland and worldwide is WhatsApp. However, we do not recommend WhatsApp or Telegram for security reasons (problematic encryption and non-transparent data protection guidelines).
But compared to MMS...
And rightfully so. Apple supporting it won’t help the folks in Switzerland because Swisscom don’t support it. And why would they? They are clearly simplifying (cost saving) the stack. RCS is a poorly designed protocol with little to no carrier support outside of the US.
https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Telephony-Knowledge-Base/RC...
WhatsApp is starting to look like a TLA backdoor in comparison.
Your comparison doesn't make sense. MMS has no need for 0-days as it's a basic communication protocol that has zero security to begin with.
That's like saying "but how many 0-days does TCP-IP have?"
Is confidentiality of your messages the only thing you care about?
Even that you won't get to keep once hit by a WhatsApp vulnerability.
Meh, and once you get hit by a car, you will die. But what are the realistic odds of that happening?
You can also get hit by a an IOS or Android RCE 0-day, so you might as well give up using a smartphone if you feel the security risk is that high. Also, many of those RCE exploits used MMS for payload delivery, so your point of MMS shielding you from exploits is moot.
In the end, for most consumers, it's a matter of looking at the convenience to risk ratio, and MMS is neither very convenient nor terribly secure.
All I am saying is that replacing a simple and well tested system with a complex and barely evaluated system is bad for security.
And for the record, ALMOST ALL recent high profile hacks were related to WhatsApp.
1) Nobody is replacing MMS with WhatApp for you, you are free to use whatever alternative fits your needs best.
2) A system which almost nobody used because it was expensive to use in the beginning, insecure by today's standards, and doesn't serve the present day needs of consumers making it severely outdated, which is why phone users migrated in droves to alternatives like WhatsApp many years ago.
If carriers and the 3GPP consortium wanted to keep MMS relevant, then they should have updated it to support encryption and higher definition multi-media, and carriers shouldn't have charged through the nose for the service, but the SW industry disrupted the telecom industry with much higher quality messaging apps that were also free, which deprecated carriers to be just dumb data pipes and made SMS/MMS mostly obsolete.
>And for the record, ALMOST ALL recent high profile hacks were related to WhatsApp.
That's needlessly exaggerating without posting any sources for such grave claims. Which "recent high profile whatsapp hacks"?
Well, most consumers do not accept the same argument for http vs https.
The revolution will be WhatsApped.