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FBI warns iPhone and Android users about text messaging security

Rob Beschizza
Dec 04, 2024
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The threat posed by international hackers, not least state-sponsored ones, has U.S. intelligence agencies finding the good in end-to-end encryption. The FBI is warning smartphone users to stick to it, which means not sending text messages between platforms that don't fully support it.

As reported by Politico, advice given by CISA's Jeff Greene and an unn…

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