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Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage (www.theverge.com)

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Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage::iMessage serves should be regulated under the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), Google and a group of major European telcos has told the European Commission.

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[–] Rocha@lm.put.tf 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google uses Signal protocol to handle E2E for RCS communication:

Google SAYS they use the Signal protocol.

Without open-source applications, you have to trust these companies to do the right thing when they can track you and make money from it in every single step of the way. Same goes for Meta with Whatsapp.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this trivial to check by decrypting network traffic sent from a device? Security researchers probably already tried to find any flaw they could.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

And to add to this, Google published a technical overview for signal implementation in RCS: https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf