rambleraptor / christmastechsupport

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Christmas Tech Support

Christmas Tech Support is a website designed to help people solve basic computer security issues that they may not be thinking about.

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Open sourced under the MIT license.

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christmastechsupport's Issues

Android SMS Encrypted?

In the secure messaging section there is this comment:

Within an Android Ecosystem
If your in an Android ecosystem (Any Android phone or tablet) and using Google Hangouts - you’re already encrypted in transit. Texting between two android phones will opt to use Hangouts and encrypt your messages over the air. Hangouts is also available on iOS devices, for those in the Apple Ecosystem.

Google’s future Duo and Allo apps support an ‘incognito’ mode, in which communications are encrypted in transit. There’s no reason not to use it!

Is there a source on this? Hangouts will attempt to send messages over hangouts, but in general when it falls back to SMS it is not a secure messaging platform. (Unless I missed some news about how they do things)