Text messaging has been around since December 1992, when the first SMS (Short Messaging Service) message – saying ‘Merry Christmas’ – was sent over the fledgling Vodafone network. Although billions of texts are still sent every day, the technology is showing its age and has failed to address the increasingly invasive nature of modern communication.
Here, we explain why you should ditch SMS on your smartphone, and recommend safer and more versatile ways to keep in touch with friends and family.
WHY YOU SHOULD STOP USING TEXT MESSAGES
SMS text messages aren’t secure
The biggest risk to using SMS is that your messages aren’t end-to-end encrypted. Although your 4G or 5G network encrypts texts between your phone and the nearest base station, your messages are then unencrypted before being sent to the recipients.times of your texts.
