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SMS Security & Privacy Gaps Make It Clear Users Need a Messaging Upgrade
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Posted by Eugene Liderman and Roger Piqueras Jover
SMS texting is frozen in time.
People still use and rely on trillions of SMS texts each year to exchange messages with friends, share family photos, and copy two-factor authentication codes to access sensitive data in their bank accounts. It’s hard to believe that at a time where technologies like AI are transforming our world, a forty-year old mobile messaging standard is still so prevalent.
Like any forty-year-old technology, SMS is antiquated …
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