With simple messager selling out & qksms no longer being actively worked on. What’s our options for open source sms messagers?
Should I dedicate time to learning flutter and building my own or does anyone know any cool foss projects working on this issue?
I’m not sure how it’s more secure. End to end encryption is only available if the sender is using Google Messages, the receiver is using Google Messages, and IIRC if the transit server is Google Jibe. No Google, no encryption for you.
You’re right, I’ve updated my reply… Hopefully someday that will be a generic RCS feature not exclusive to Google and/or Apple and Google will work to make the E2EE work between their two systems.
Apple said something along the lines of wanting to develop an encryption standard with the GSM Alliance. Which basically means the Alliance would represent two major companies instead of one. I’m not exactly holding my breath for what Apple’s standards will be, as iMessage is unsurprisingly not as good with encryption as Google Messenger (which uses Signal’s protocol at least).
If the MLS group messaging encryption protocol can get finalized any day soon then they might use that
Samsung messages has Google’s RCS implementation and E2EE, too.
Does it though? I haven’t had the ability to look at it, despite having a Samsung