RTÉ - "ComReg pre-registers over 7,000 Sender IDs to prevent scam texts"
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I have a question. When ComReg registers a 'Sender ID', what are they actually registering?
Is this just the Sender ID text which identifies the sender to the recipient. If so, I don't see the point as these can be spoofed to what ever you want. Are they also registering some other unique non modifiable code? AFAIK the phone number can also be spoofed as well.
Is this just the Sender ID text which identifies the sender to the recipient. If so, I don't see the point as these can be spoofed to what ever you want. Are they also registering some other unique non modifiable code? AFAIK the phone number can also be spoofed as well.
I use Apple's Messages app on iPhone to communicate with others, both those who have iPhones and those with other devices who couldn't be bothered with WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or other flavour-of-the-month nonsense, or who don't know know how to install them. End-to-end encrypted, no 3rd-party software, with transmission over Apple's private network, it works with Android recipients who can send to and receive from me, although it'll lack some of the iPhone to iPhone functionality.
I've never understood the need for 3rd-party messaging apps. For example, I can click on a picture, document, contact, video, sound file, etc on my iPhone, click "Share", pick a recipient, click send, and that's it. Couldn't be simpler.
Some of my communicants have insisted on using 3rd-party messaging of late and I'm convinced that has been the source of the spammy messages and phone calls I've begun to receive.
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Compared to SMS/MMS, Apple iMessage is a 3rd party messaging app!
iMessage - Wikipedia
Here we go again, again!! Messages is an app, iMessage is an optional protocol which can be used within the Messages app or not; vanilla MMS/SMS protocols are there to be selected too. I choose to use iMessage just as others who use different apps choose, if they're even offered choice, to use their flavour of "vendor lock-in". At least with Apple users have choice; browse the Messages app settings sometime. I've posted this before but don't let your anti-Apple bias stop you dragging us around in circles, again.
p.s. Messages also receives MMS/SMS from other messaging apps - I don't need the proprietary app installed to receive them. Try sending WhatsApp messages to certain flavours of Android and see what happens - "Message nor Delivered" is what often happens.
I have no idea what you're on about.
I simply made a statement of fact.
iMessage uses proprietary technology.
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WhatsApp has 1.7 billion active users which is about 30% of adults on the planet, including anlmost every adult I know.
You can have theological discussions about what it is or what it isn’t, but if you don’t use it you won’t have much of a social life.
If your social life is centered around and depends upon your use of a phone app then I feel very sorry for you, and feel grateful I have my own social circle of real-life human beings!
That's a bit of a change, your previous statement was that it was an app. But no, it is a setting within the Apple Messages app. In other words, its use is optional. Go have a look, find the iMessage app on the home screen or in the Applications folder on any Apple product. You won't find it, but as I've posted in this thread and previously, and as your link above confirms, it is a protocol, and its use is optional within the Messages app.