In the past, I’ve heard about how Google can keep records of all your Google phone’s past locations and text messages.
What about RCS messages which supposedly are encrypted from Android to Android? I know that it’s possible that they secretly keep a log behind the scenes, but as far as the regular consumer knows is there any record being kept with regard to the contents of these RCS messages?
See, that’s interesting because I was always taught that “text message” is just an overarching term used to describe SMS and MMS. The notion that a text message is a synonym of SMS and only SMS is a new one to me!
Good to know! Do you happen to know if the decryption keys are stored offline or on the carrier’s end? Because if the latter, then okay it’s more secure than SMS or MMS but only in the sense that some encryption is better than none. Lol.
I mean it’s in the name. A message containing media and not text is simply not a text message. Many people use them incorrectly but it’s literally in the name.
RCS is (supposedly) E2EE so keys are stored locally.
Hey, I get it now. Lol. I was just explaining what my mindset was.
Well, you can have E2EE with keys stored server-side. It’s just kind of pointless from a security/privacy standpoint, but I’ve seen it happen.
No you cannot. E2EE = end to end encrypted. If it can be decrypted from anywhere other than a sender or recipient (the ends) then it’s not E2EE.
You are clearly misunderstanding me.
If the keys are stored server-side, that means it’s stored by either the “sender or recipient”. The server is among those two options.
I am not misunderstanding you. You just do not understand what E2EE means. Th server is not a sender or a recipient. It is not an “end”.