<story><title>Saying goodbye to encrypted SMS/MMS</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>junto</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  We don’t want the state-run telcos in Saudi, Iran, Bahrain,
  Belarus, China, Egypt, Cuba, USA, etc… to have direct access
  to the metadata of TextSecure users in those countries or
  anywhere else.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Sad to see that the &amp;#x27;land of the free&amp;#x27; has become bundled (in a relatively short period of time) into a category of oppressive states that have little or no respect for the privacy of its citizens.</text></comment>
<story><title>Saying goodbye to encrypted SMS/MMS</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackbravo</author><text>Lack of GCM was one of their primary reasons for not providing an APK for TextSecure for users who don&amp;#x27;t use Google Play (like users with CyanogenMod).&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;WhisperSystems&amp;#x2F;TextSecure&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;127&lt;/a&gt;
- &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/articles/1476204-why-do-i-need-google-play-installed-to-use-textsecure-on-android&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.whispersystems.org&amp;#x2F;customer&amp;#x2F;portal&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;1...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully that option will be available soon.</text></comment>