Pourquoi le logo de l’app Messages sur iPhone n’est pas bleu ?
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 27 March - 13:17
Depuis 2011, Apple propose aux utilisateurs de ses produits d'utiliser iMessage, une application de messagerie connue pour ses bulles bleues. Pourtant, en 2024, l'icône de l'application Messages est verte.
FR-ALERT : quel était cet étrange message que vous avez peut-être reçu ?
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 22 March - 13:44
Si vous avez reçu une notification d'alerte le 22 mars 2024, c'est normal : vous avez participé à un test technique pour la mise en place d'un nouveau système destiné à prévenir la population en cas de grave danger.
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Si vous avez reçu ce SMS de BIGHOME, ne l’ouvrez surtout pas, c’est une arnaque
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 5 March - 09:46
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C’est quoi le smishing, cette arnaque au SMS qui inquiète les autorités ?
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 1 March - 12:25
Quels sont ces messages d’alerte que vous allez recevoir si vous êtes à Paris ?
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 15 February - 06:30
Des alertes apparaîtront sur les téléphones portables des personnes se trouvant à Paris entre février et avril 2024. Ces notifications s'inscrivent dans une campagne d'essai du mécanisme d'avertissement FR-Alert, qui sert à prévenir la population en cas de danger. Ces messages sont des exercices.
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Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 13 February - 19:06 · 1 minute
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Apple's iMessage service is not a "gatekeeper" prone to unfair business practices and will thus not be required under the Fair Markets Act to open up to messages, files, and video calls from other services, the European Commission announced earlier today .
Apple was one of many companies, including Google, Amazon, Alphabet (Google's parent company), Meta, and Microsoft to have its "gatekeeper" status investigated by the EU. The iMessage service did meet the definition of a "core platform," serving at least 45 million EU users monthly and being controlled by a firm with at least 75 billion euros in market capitalization. But after "a thorough assessment of all arguments" during a five-month investigation, the Commission found that iMessage and Microsoft's Bing search, Edge browser, and ad platform "do not qualify as gatekeeper services." The unlikelihood of EU demands on iMessage was apparent in early December , when Bloomberg reported that the service didn't have enough sway with business users to demand more regulation.
Had the Commission ruled otherwise, Apple would have had until August to open up its service. It would have been interesting to see how the company would have complied, given that it provides end-to-end encryption and registers senders based on information from their registered Apple devices.
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Comment transmettre votre emplacement par SMS en cas d’urgence ?
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 12 February - 10:46
Pourquoi recevez-vous un étrange SMS d’alerte si vous vivez près de la Méditerranée ?
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 19 January - 08:46
C'est un entraînement de grande ampleur pour le système FR-Alert qui est prévu le 19 janvier. Dans le sud de la France, un SMS sera envoyé à des centaines de milliers de personnes pour leur signaler une alerte au tsunami, heureusement fictive. Il s'agit de tester le système et rappeler que la mer Méditerranée est exposée à ce risque.
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SMS Censorship
Stephen Paul Weber · Wednesday, 3 January - 20:15 edit · 2 minutes · 10 visibility
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 the SPAM filters getting worse?
In a word: yes.
It seems that in an effort to self-regulate and reduce certain kinds of “undesirable content” most carriers have resorted to wholesale keyword blocking of words not commonly found in SPAM, but referring to items and concepts the carriers find undesirable. For example, at least one major USA carrier blocks every SMS message containing the word “morphine”. How any hospital staff or family with hospitalized members are meant to know they must avoid this word is anyone’s guess, hopefully after being told their messages are “SPAM” they can guess to say “they upped Mom’s M dose” instead?
To preserve our reputation with these carriers we have begun to build an internal list of the keywords being blocked by different major carriers, and blocking all messages with those keywords ourselves rather than attempt to deliver them. While this seems like a suboptimal solution, the messages would never have been delivered anyways and this reduces the amount of “SPAM” that the carriers see coming from us. We have also insituted a cooldown such that if your account triggers a “SPAM” error from a major carrier, further messages are blocked for a short time to avoid repeated attempts to send the same message.
So what are the kinds of “undesirable content” the carriers are attempting to avoid here?
This is not really our policy so much as it is that of the carriers we must work with in order to continue delivering your messages to friends and family.
Every JMP account comes with, as an option, a Snikket instance of your very own. As always, we highly recommend inviting friends and family you have many discussions with (especially discussions about sex, firearms, or drugs) to your Snikket instance and continuing all conversations there in private instead of broadcasting them over the phone network. Sending an invite link to your Snikket instance is easy, and anyone who uses the link will get an account on your instance, with yourself and others as a contact, set up automatically, so it is a great way to speak more securely with family and friend groups. Snikket will also enable higher quality media sharing, video calls, and many other benefits for your regular contacts.
Of course we know you will continue to need SMS and MMS for many of your contacts now and in the future, and JMP is dedicated to continuing to provide best-in-class service for person to person communication in this way as well.
