Critics are slamming the new iMessage-like feature coming soon to all Android phones for not being secure

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according to Almost eextremely main transporter and Android smartphone producer has alavailiable signed on. Unfortunately, the new Chat feature, like SMS before it, going to not be encrypted. "It is hard to see causes of any Android user would select to Utilize the new Chat service. We reached out to Google for comment on causes of the new Chat feature lacks end-to-end encryption. Others on Twitter balked at the decision to launch the new Chat service without end-to-end encryption.

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Google Android Messages are alextremely coming to your desktopBut in spite of the added scrulittle over information prevention in the wake of the Facebook privacy scandal, Google somehow thought it OK to skimp on encryption. This is done with "scrambling" the messages sent from 1 man to another into a code which looks like gibberish to anyone else. For the uninitiated, Google Chat is underpinned with RCS (Rich Communication Services): a messaging standerd which going to let for toll free chats among Android users on different mobile networks. Google Android Chat is Guessed to launch in the U.K. early following yearMicrosoft is alextremely onboard with RCS, meaning it can make an appearance on Windows ten as well. MeanWhen the firm going to still to cram further features into the Android messaging app, and is even planning a Chat service for the web.

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As it stated in RCS messages going to alextremely do amethod with the 160 character limit currently found in SMS messages. The tech giant has been helping to raise the adoption of RCS messaging in recent years, as it wants to implement it in all Android phones. Ultimately, the rate of adoption and success of RCS Messaging depends on the mobile operators. This is because at the moment, there are variations of the RCS protocol, very phones Utilizing RCS on some networks: AT&T and Verizon for example, could not currently send RCS messages to those on Sprint. There are currently sixty supporters of RCS Messaging, broken drop into 47 mobile operators, eleven OEMs and two operating system providers.