Google knows this, of course, because all of those messages are now routed through Google. As SMS, they were moving through the carriers, but now they’re going through the carriers and Google.

And since end-to-end encryption in RCS is a proprietary extension, not available to non-Google implementations, all of these new messages are wide open and ready for Google to data mine.

Hooray! Big win for everybody?

It’s the problem of being infested with parasites. Each individual parasite can complain that it barely takes any blood to keep them fat and bloated, but once all of the parasites are added up, you’re left with a sickly society.

No catchy name for the vulnerability? It can’t be that bad, then…

Doesn’t sound like a very safe room. But anyway, imagine even having to have a safe room because you have to live in fear of the people whose land you stole standing up for themselves.