Sms has been god awful since the beginning, both the standard and the business implementation. Remember bullshit pricing models for texts? 10center per text over your limit. Even today, the standard hasn’t kept up with modern times.

That’s the only reason I started using Telegram. It might not be secure or whatever, but it sure is nice to have voice and video calling on a nice-looking desktop app. It’s the only one I was able to get my family to use, and that I already had some friends using.

But I could never get them to use advanced shit like SimpleX or something similar lol. “But this already works?” Yeeeaaah but… Nah, it’ll never fly. 😑

Theoretically anyone at the right point can read all your SMS texts.

A great example being the police “stingray tower” system that masquerades as a cell tower that your phone will happily (and quietly) connect to.

Convince a phone that you’re just another authorized relay, have a target in mind, and it’s like reading postcards before they hit the mailbox.

This is also why it’s an absolute joke for 2FA, but institutions like banks still happily use it because it’s easy to understand.