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@SenWarren Because it was designed for the APPLE ecosystem not the ANDROID ecosystem is that so hard to understand??

@SenWarren Rcs is being added for this reason.

@SenWarren Apple’s servers, Apple’s choice. No?

@SenWarren Why would apple let a third party organisation that doesn't represent them, won't take accountability for breaches, adds nothing but more load to their servers that are only ready for manufactured and accounted devices; reverse engineer their software? Why is everyone desperate?

@SenWarren You sound like the EU. There are a plethora of apps (whatsApp, Signal, kik to name a few) which offer cross platform secure messaging if that’s what people want. They have the choice, but choose not to exercise that choice.

@SenWarren Because next year Apple will adopt #RCS to iOS, and Android users can now text to iOS ones (but green still stays green). Better focus on something else other than this, Senator.

@SenWarren You're right that they're protecting their profits. What else are they supposed to do, let a company profit off of their work for $2/month?

@SenWarren Senator, respectfully, the company that is facilitating this type of activity is doing so it it’s own self interest. There are ways to approach tech companies and had they worked with Apple they may have found a common ground. Instead, they decided to profit off of Apple.

@SenWarren The app broke Apple’s rules and created illicit, backdoor access to iMessage. Android and iOS users have alternatives for cross-platform encrypted messaging. And Apple’s adopting RCS, Google’s new SMS replacement, that is encrypted. The blocked app is a hack, not a real product.

@SenWarren Apple is adopting RCS sometime next year. bubbles might still be a different color cross-platform, but communications will be secure

@SenWarren @yashar Senator, the app impersonated an Apple Device and ran on some server in the middle of nowhere, so it wasn’t secure. I agree that the support for RCS for iPhone is long overdue, but Apple can choose whatever Color they please. That’s their choice and not the government’s.

@SenWarren Because they tried to profit out of a service from Apple without even talking to them? They also potentially introduce a lot of security risks that way. Literally every company would've done the same as Apple.

@SenWarren “Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association. We believe RCS Universal Profile will offer a better interoperability experience when compared to SMS or MMS.” 9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/app…

@SenWarren Because it’s their tech that they own? Why should they just give it away?

@SenWarren There’s a difference between what I want and what I may use government violence to coerce others to do.

@SenWarren So a company reverse engineers a secure technology and creates an app cloning that technology to fool the original app into believing it is also a secure endpoint… this is the definition of insecure. Do you even understand the contradiction in what you said?

@SenWarren Have a lot of respect for Sen. Warren but she should understand that Apple wasn’t going to let other companies profit off of their proprietary tech, that too where the company was trying to impersonate Apple devices to get their technology working Apple is going to support RCS

@SenWarren Ummm… because they don’t want iMessage being used for phishing scams, spam, etc. like text messages are? I never receive phishing msgs or spam via iMessage. Open that access to anyone and guess what, I would! Stay in your lane Senator. This isn’t it!

@SenWarren Maybe we shouldn’t endorse exploiting and abusing another company’s secure services for a profit? Especially since there were claims that the exploit couldn’t be verifiably secure, so this whole thing could actually be lowering security. Also, if a company stole your product,…

@SenWarren I don't know, Sen Warren. They found a way to reverse engineer the protocol and make the server think the message was coming from an Apple device; whatever your stance on this you take , it is a security hole Apple could not leave. leave engineering to the engineers, Senator.