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REPORTPUBLIC METADATA

Saying goodbye to encrypted SMS/MMS

It’s 2015, and the end of the road for encrypted SMS/MMS in TextSecure. The TextSecure story started back in 2009, at the dawn of the smartphone era. Back then, TextSecure focused on securing the transport that everyone coming from feature phones was familiar with: SMS. Today, many things have changed, and TextSecure now emphasizes the “TextSecure transport,” which uses data rather than SMS. While

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Saying goodbye to encrypted SMS/MMS
First reported
Mar 06, 2015 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Mar 06, 2015 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:50 UTC
Record ID
264c8cd358980b3710f2e1a6cfce5542b123690df1e4d3d4d8e49c2e71bf4107

Published indicators

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Source observations

src_1b0ea7addf33a18b0f

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Mar 06, 2015 00:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:50 UTC

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