Comment by sillyfluke
3 years ago
A bit weird for the "I don't use it so who cares" view to take a firm hold here.
SMS is:
1. not controlled by a single company
2. a different network than the internet
3. a fail safe for people who don't use apps or are unable to at a given time for some reason (inc 2fa)
4. a fail safe for a "small group of people" who are suffering the consequences of a natural disaster.
Though perhaps not economically feasible for certain companies, supporting redunancy is as much an honorable goal as privacy.
And totally readable and accessible by any third party
I tried to imply that redundancy instead of privacy would be the reason to support SMS in my last sentence.
Is this the comment you would give when someone says they intend to take a notebook with them when travelling in addition to their phone?
Can you please explain how you or any other third party (beyond my phone provider) can read my SMS at will?
and? If you want encryption you can add it yourself. GPG should work for example. And there was some apps that encrypt messages over whatsapp and co, there should work for SMS too.