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FBI warns users to encrypt text messages for cybersecurity. Here's how to do it

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FBI warns users to encrypt text messages for cybersecurity. Here's how to do it

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Here's how to encrypt your text messages to ensure your information is safe from cybersecurity hackers.

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It sends SMS. not RCS. Does SMS even support any type of encryption? I’m under the impression it doesn’t.

Edit: I just sent a message from my GV to my regular carrier number and it’s just SMS. Certainly not encrypted.
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