«Théo, c’est toi?»: au procès en appel du chantage de Saint-Étienne, le SMS qui trahit Gaël Perdriau
Les avocats de la victime du chantage à la sextape ont bombardé de questions, jeudi 11 juin, l’ancien maire sur un message compromettant retrouvé par les enquêteurs. En 2018, à une date où il était censé tout ignorer du complot, l’élu blaguait sur le surnom de l’escort. ⌘ Read more

Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
Hey HN! We’re Gary and Ian, and we’re building Chert ( https://www.trychert.com/), an API for businesses to send, receive, and automate iMessage conversations at scale. Check out our demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRdwvVxMMoI.

We originally started by building products on top of iMessage because the blue bubble interface, typing indicators, and reactions made agentic conversations feel more human than ones on SMS … ⌘ Read more

Businesses that send SMS messages now need to register their IDs
Organisations using branded identifiers in their text messages to consumers will need to register them by July 1, 2026, or risk being mistaken for a scam. ⌘ Read more

Apple Sees Record October in China With Strong iPhone 17 Demand
Apple had a bumper month for iPhone sales in China in October, with sales jumping 37% compared to a year earlier on strong demand for iPhone 17 models, according to data from research firm Counterpoint.

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Der ganze Vorgang ist archetypisch für die seit Jahrzehnten völlig ohne Not stattfindende politische Selbstverzwergung Europas.

A comment on heise about the recent AWS outage.

https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-zum-Totalausfall-bei-AWS-Nichts-gelernt-in-den-letzten-30-Jahren-10794622.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

(Too bad there’s no good translation for the great word “Selbstverzwergung”.)

I’m paraphrasing: Europe (and other regions) depend on US IT services, a lot, without an actual need. We saw AWS, Google, and Microsoft build large datacenters and then we thought “welp, shit, nothing we can do about that, guess we’ll just be an AWS customer from now on.” Nobody really went ahead and built German/European alternatives. And now we completely depend on the US for lots of our stuff.

The article even claims that there’s now a shortage of sysadmins in the EU? I’m not so sure. But I’d welcome it, makes my job more secure. 🤣

Hosting services, datacenters, software, everything, it’s all US stuff. Why do we accept this, why not build alternatives …

What Problems are Truly Technical, not Social?
Most “tech” problems (and solutions) seem social, with e.g. most newer startups relying on internal connections to gain real world adoption, otherwise blocked due to institutional apathy and bad regulations (sms 2fa, hospital faxes…)

A recent (unlocated) poll asked a similar question: “what percent of workers in the software industry are employed writing programs that should not exist?” While we do have NP-hard problems, politically hard problems like avoi … ⌘ Read more

SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it’s also hostile to mountain people
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@mana@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i LOVEEEE her 2018 BD event sm

“Move to iOS” app continuously refused to run as intended and expected, so couldn’t migrate mum’s Android based phone data. Most of her stuff is on a Google account, but not the SMS/MMS/RCS messages. Haven’t found a way to export, then import those into iOS.

She isn’t too happy having to keep the old phone just for the messages. Need to find a way to go through them, export multimedia attachments, and import them into iOS. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but I am not letting her know yet. 😅

Yeah nice try assholes 🤣 #failed #phissing #sms href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23attack”>#attack**
Yeah nice try assholes 🤣 #failed #phissing #sms #attack ⌘ Read more

Telcos in talks to roll out ‘SMS on steroids’
Telstra, Optus and TPG are in talks to implement an SMS replacement that could slash the rate of spam messages. ⌘ Read more

JMP: SMS Censorship
Since almost the very beginning of JMP there have been occasional SMS and MMS delivery failures with an error message like “Rejected for SPAM”. By itself this is not too surprising, since every communications system has a SPAM problem and every SPAM blocking technique has some false positives. Over the past few years, however, the incidence of this error has gone up and up. But whenever we investigate, we find no SPAM being sent, just regular humans having regular conversations. So what is happening here? Are … ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: SMS Routes, RCS, and more!
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; … ⌘ Read more

i think maybe they got her to add a forward number for sms and used that to activate on another device..

JMP: Newsletter: SMS Routes, RCS, and more!
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; … ⌘ Read more

it’s a chat app that bridges to a bunch of networks seamlessly.

they bridge to signal, discord, whatsapp, fb messenger, instagram, linkedin, telegram, slack, sms, google chat, and IRC

it’s a #Matrix client, so you just get a @username:beeper.com matrix user, which works on matrix too.

the bridges are all open source. they hired tulir, who does the mautrix bridge stuff a couple of years ago.

beeper has people working on the open-source matr … ⌘ Read more

How to Automatically Fill SMS Passcodes & Security Codes on iPhone, iPad, Mac
Messages for iPhone, Mac, and iPad all contain a really handy feature that autofills security codes that are sent to you via text message. You know the type, as these text message verification codes are often required for signing into financial institutions or many other things that use it as a method of identity and … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/02/20/how-to-automatic … ⌘ Read more

How to Autofill Security Codes from Mail on Mac, iPhone, iPad
The latest versions of Mail for iPhone, Mac, and iPad support a fantastic autofill security code feature. This is similar to the autofilling security code feature for SMS that is available in Messages for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, except of course that it’s utilizing the Mail app for two-factor authentication and security codes that are … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/02/14/how-autofill-security-code-mail-iphone-ipad-ma … ⌘ Read more

@sorenpeter@darch.dk this makes sense as a quote twt that references a direct URL. If we go back to how it developed on twitter originally it was RT @nick: original text because it contained the original text the twitter algorithm would boost that text into trending.

i like the format (#hash) @<nick url> > "Quoted text"\nThen a comment
as it preserves the human read able. and has the hash for linking to the yarn. The comment part could be optional for just boosting the twt.

The only issue i think i would have would be that that yarn could then become a mess of repeated quotes. Unless the client knows to interpret them as multiple users have reposted/boosted the thread.

The format is also how iphone does reactions to SMS messages with +number liked: original SMS

JMP: SMS Censorship
Since almost the very beginning of JMP there have been occasional SMS and MMS delivery failures with an error message like “Rejected for SPAM”. By itself this is not too surprising, since every communications system has a SPAM problem and every SPAM blocking technique has some false positives. Over the past few years, however, the incidence of this error has gone up and up. But whenever we investigate, we find no SPAM being sent, just regular humans having regular conversations. So what is happening here? Are … ⌘ Read more

JMP: SMS Censorship
Since almost the very beginning of JMP there have been occasional SMS and MMS delivery failures with an error message like “Rejected for SPAM”. By itself this is not too surprising, since every communications system has a SPAM problem and every SPAM blocking technique has some false positives. Over the past few years, however, the incidence of this error has gone up and up. But whenever we investigate, we find no SPAM being sent, just regular humans having regular conversations. So what is happening here? Are … ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.8.2
Two months after the last release, Gajim 1.8.2 comes with better support for gateways, improved group chats, an easy way to change the font size, and many small fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

Gateways can (if offered by your server) bridge your XMPP chat to other chat networks. This could be WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS or others, depending on the gateway service. This release improves support for data forms (service configuration), brings better avatars for gatewa … ⌘ Read more

Det vil også sige at min Matrix server er utilgængelig..

Skriv til mig på gammeldags sms eller her på fedi, hvis du vil have fat i mig. ⌘ Read more

JMP: SMS Account Verification
Some apps and services (but not JMP!) require an SMS verification code in order to create a new account.  (Note that this is different from using SMS for authentication; which is a bad idea since SMS can be easily intercepted, are not encrypted in transit, and are v … ⌘ Read more

One-Size-Fits-All? How to Take Big Notes and How to Take Small Notes

Historically, the length of media content has often been the result of technological restrictions. The SMS, for instance, is restricted to 160 characters due to the underlying GSM-7 protocol. Consequently, a change in the technological conditions can affect the l … ⌘ Read more

JMP: SMS Account Verification
Some apps and services (but not JMP!) require an SMS verification code in order to create a new account.  (Note that this is different from using SMS for authentication; which is a bad idea since SMS can be easily intercepted, are not encrypted in transit, and are v … ⌘ Read more

JMP: SMS Account Verification
Some apps and services (but not JMP!) require an SMS verification code in order to create a new account.  (Note that this is different from using SMS for authentication; which is a bad idea since SMS can be easily intercepted, are not encrypted in transit, and are v … ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Togethr, SMS-only Ports, Snikket Hosting
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free … ⌘ Read more

JMP: How to use Jabber from SMS
The Soprani.ca project, and Cheogram in particular, is pretty big on bidirectional gateways.  The most popular Cheogram-hosted instance, so popular that it gets to own Jabber IDs on cheogram.com, is a bidirectional gateway to the telephone network.  How is it bidirectional?  Don’t you need a Jabber ID to use it?  Of course not!

From any SMS-enabled device, add +12266669977, which is the gateway’s phone number.  Send the foll … ⌘ Read more

How to remove bloatware
After I put my new SIM card in my phone today (yes, the one with the unlimited mobidata volume - thanks for all the replies to my recent post!), I noticed that there suddenly appeared a new app that wanted to offer me additional services via SMS, of course for a fee. An app with no benefit for me, even annoying me by the presence of the app icon in the app drawer and the missing possibility to deactivate the app! ⌘ Read more

This could be our future: https://puri.sm/posts/internet-of-snitches/; Please consider signing https://appleprivacyletter.com/

Phishing Resistant SMS Autofill ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-09-25-phishing-resistant-sms-autofill/

Изпратете SMS, спасете Луната!