Why I don’t want to use phone carrier’s texting

I created this post in a hurry and will edit later in a better explanation.

Phone Texting is insecure and unreliable. You might be thinking “texting seems reliable”, but it is dependent on a single device. Try losing your phone in a lake or simply let the battery die. Could you send a message from another device? No, deeming it unreliable. You might think “texting seems secure”, but it is not secure in all scenarios. It depends on who you are texting, what devices are sending or receiving the message, and all messages sit on your phone carrier’s servers in nonencrypted format. It also assumes a trust that Google, Apple, Verizon, AT&T, T-mobile and all the other companies related to texting are good stewards of your data, message content, location history, and contacts list. It’s hard to trust these entities while hearing about data breaches, big tech surveillance capitalism, and censorship they participate in.

Here is a reference article put out by the FBI, though this knowledge has been known for many years by privacy-minded people like myself. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/06/fbi-warns-iphone-and-android-users-stop-sending-texts/

More references to come soon.