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Today, we are going to talk about data literacy, a really important topic
and I hope you stay until the end because we are going to talk about how
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Do you know what it means to be data literate?
Having a good grasp on exactly how much your data is worth and
how much YOU are worth as a product. You probably have heard of
the point people make when they say,
"If a product is free,
you are the product!"
So what we are going to go over today
A friday... on forbes friday is a very interesting forbes article
from september 1st 2020 why you should stop sending texts from
your android messages app.
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and now here comes your forbes fridays if there's a glaring issue with a widely
used technology now undergoing a major upgrade you'd think
the glaring issue would be fixed well apparently not if you're an android user
then google either just has or is about to update
your device's messages app with its answer to apple's imessage
dubbed rcs or rich communication service this will
update your phone's basic default messenger into a fully featured
chat platform to compete with imessage as well as whatsapp
and facebook messenger so this is an obvious case of
they did it now we do it but there's a scary twist coming up
let's get some meatball up in here come here we're doing forbes fridays
orbs friday's meatball
okay oh my glasses messaging has become a battlefield with
apple and google battling facebook both messenger
and whatsapp to be the go-to platform on your phone there are few stickier apps
in the one you use to chat with friends family and colleagues and
as new functionality becomes more commercial ticketing coupons purchases
transfers and ads this becomes a real money spinner as
reported this week ever more countries are becoming rcs
enabled recent updates have appeared in argentina chile
denmark italy norway pakistan poland portugal and singapore
gosh although rcs is being deployed by carriers around the world
it is google driving the rollout it needs to level the playing field with
apple rcs is the long-awaited upgrade to the
standard sms capability built into our phones sms is a basic tech that is
really best avoided and unfortunately rcs has not fixed one of its most
critical issues putting animated stickers and
easy to reach gifts to one side messaging comes down to a balancing act
between functionality security and install base
the install base across the platforms from big tech you know facebook
messenger whatsapp imessage and google messages is
clearly good albeit facebook requires an over-the-top
service rather than the fallback to network sms used
by apple and google functionality is good across the board and getting better
all the time but on the security front there's still a major difference that's
all the meatball that we can afford today
the original and still most universal global messaging platform is sms
the standard text messenger available on gsm phones
both apple and google use sms as a fallback for those without imessage
where apple is concerned or without the
upgraded chat functions offered by google which are
built around the new rcs tech but rcs is not
an imessage equivalent it's completely different and has a glaring issue
android users should turn to whatsapp or signal instead
of using android messages app when you send an sms the data is encrypted
between your phone and the cell tower it can't easily be intercepted over the
air as such but that's simple network security once the
sms has disappeared into the network it is open
to interception and given we text people on different networks and in different
countries your sms can travel across a hodgepodge
of different network servers and systems back in 2016
whatsapp fixed this by defaulting to what's
called end-to-end encryption what it means
put simply is that the message is secured with only the sender and
recipient holding the decryption key no one including network and whatsapp
can see what you have sent imessage does exactly the same as long
as it's that blue bubble once you go green in sms
and all bets are off as you see the issue
google has decided to adopt an updated sms architecture to work with the
carriers rather than providing android with an over-the-top
equivalent to imessage your message is encrypted between your phone and google
servers but that message can be decrypted on root you're not the only
one with the key and if the message links in with other
rcs deployments then it's as unsecured as an sms
you can control when imessage uses sms you don't have that easy flexibility
with google messages use of rcs as google says if your chat features are
provided by google but your recipients rcs service is with
another provider then your messages are rooted through
google's rcs back-end and then rooted into your recipient's rcs
back-end last year germany's sr labs warned that
deploying rcs as an sms upgrade without a new approach
security exposes most mobile users to hacking
the researchers warned that the way in which google and the carriers were
deploying rcs would open users to impersonation
mimicking the number and ip address of a device interception and tracking
rcs provisioning is badly protected in many accounts
the team said allowing hackers to fully take over user accounts
and google messages does not implement sufficient domain and certificate
validation enabling hackers to intercept and
manipulate communication through a dns spoofing attack the technical
details don't really matter here the fact is that either your
messages are end to end encrypted or they're not and while you probably
think that most of your messages don't warrant security
we all send financial details contact details and other
sensitive information over messengers we use messengers to chat with work
colleagues we expect they're secure from crying
eyes facebook and whatsapp have both warned
that end-to-end encryption is a necessary
security measure to stop content falling into the wrong hands
facebook even advocates the secret messages feature in its own messenger
to mitigate the compromise of server and networking infrastructure used by
messenger facebook's included messenger isn't end
to end encrypted by default and users should
switch to whatsapp rcs is even worse at least facebook is a
single provider and doesn't push content outside its own control google is
reportedly developing an end-to-end encryption upgrade for its
rcs deployment and when that's done this advice will change and android
users will have an imessage alternative until then i strongly advise you to
ensure your go-to messenger is fully encrypted
whatsapp is likely your best option it's ubiquitous and has
all the features you need it's also due a bunch of feature upgrades including
multiple linked devices which will make it even better but if you bulk at the
idea of facebook accessing your data albeit i'm not sure
google is a much better option than go for signal the all-round
best messenger available today i can't vouch whether or not
this was a signal ad after all i mean forbes has done this in on occasion but
hey thank you forbs for the news i'm gonna
go and switch off of messenger and until
next time stay safe be data literate continue
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