I think you misunderstand the purpose of Signal. It’s for encrypted communication. SMS can be encrypted but it can be a real hassle and security risk if messages are sent over 2 different channels and start arriving out of order or not at all. Sending media over SMS is also a problem as now that introduces another problem: MMS is over data, not SMS. If you don’t have data but do have SMS, a message in the chain isn’t delivered which means key renegotiation.
They dropped SMS for very good reasons. It’s not because “they are lazy” or and they had “fuck all to do”. If it really were that easy, it would’ve been done.
I think you misunderstand the purpose of Signal. It’s for encrypted communication. SMS can be encrypted but it can be a real hassle and security risk if messages are sent over 2 different channels and start arriving out of order or not at all. Sending media over SMS is also a problem as now that introduces another problem: MMS is over data, not SMS. If you don’t have data but do have SMS, a message in the chain isn’t delivered which means key renegotiation.
They dropped SMS for very good reasons. It’s not because “they are lazy” or and they had “fuck all to do”. If it really were that easy, it would’ve been done.
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