FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts

Timing is everything. Just as Apple’s adoption of RCS had seemed to signal a return to text messaging versus the unstoppable growth of WhatsApp, then along comes a surprising new hurdle to stop that in its tracks. While messaging Android to Android or iPhone to iPhone is secure,messaging from one to the other is not.

Now even the FBI and CISA, the US cyber defense agency, are warning Americans to use responsibly encrypted messaging and phone calls where they can. The backdrop is theChinese hacking of US networksthat is reportedly “ongoing and likely larger in scale than previously understood.” Fully encrypted comms is the best defense against this compromise, and Americans are being urged to use that wherever possible.

>https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/05/fbi-warns-iphone-and-android-users-stop-sending-texts/

>>22111966 (pb) “We have some big picture stuff coming down the pike starting on January 21st,” Hotez said

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>Congo 'on alert' over mystery flu-like disease that killed dozens

>Updated Dec. 5, 2024 9:00 p.m. GMT

>so far confirmed 71 deaths, including 27 people who died in hospitals and 44 in the community

Patient in isolation at UH St. John Medical Center in Westlake after arriving from Congo with flu-like symptoms

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cuyahoga-county/uh-st-john-medical-center-westlake-congo-patient-flu-like-symptoms/95-e5591e19-69b8-4e7f-b430-8be2a69eb9d1