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		viraptor on June 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: With a single wiretap, police collected 9.2M text ... What does Android have to do with wiretaps?

xenospn on June 30, 2019 | [–]

Android phones send SMS messages.

viraptor on July 1, 2019 | | [–]

So does every mobile phone.

solotronics on June 30, 2019 | [–]

the default SMS message protocol is unencrypted

viraptor on June 30, 2019 | [–]

No, SMS is unencrypted on all platforms. I think you meant that iOS may sometimes send encrypted messages to other numbers.

But that's not a great solution for a common e2e.

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