On 2023-01-08 at 18:21 +0000, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote: > Once upon a time SMS had a reputation for stronger security and > privacy than email. I don't know how much that reputation was > or is deserved.
Well, a SMS: - Is not encrypted at any point - Could be dropped with no notification (bounce) to the sender - The sender can be spoofed. And you don't even have source ips to check its source. On the other hand, email has drawbacks as well. It might be "more secure and private" in case some anti-wiretapping law applies to sms but not emails. It might end up being more private in that perhaps your email provider your reads your emails^W^W^W processes your emails for your benefit but didn't read your SMS. Being a separate type of network, it will use quite different systems, for better or worse. I think the reason many providers use SMS reminders for appointments (other than inertia) is because that's a lower common denominator. If you have a mobile phone, even a dumb one, you are able to receive SMS. Which is quite different than saying that you will actually *read* them or *able* to. There are many old people with no email but that have a mobile phone. Often, they don't know how to read their received SMS, either. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
