Comment by monetus
3 years ago
> Getting someone to sort of clock the difference in a protocol layer security property, that’s an education task that is pretty steep
This is the signal president's stated reasoning on why they couldn't have a blue-message (secure) / green-message (insecure) dynamic, akin to iMessage. I think she is being disingenuous, and that the development effort of MMS is the driving motivation, but I am cynical.
I think the people who maintained their SMS codebase left and they don't know how to maintain it properly, and it isn't cool, so they let it wither and now they want to amputate it. Which is fine really, though it highlights that you can't depend on them. I was starting to feel that already with their cryptocoin experimentation. It's a pity Signal is un-forkable.