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	pacman	2017-12-05 , 10:01
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Originally Posted by juiceme

Weeelll... technically you are correct but WTF!

Anything that depends on Google Services cannot be secure by any lenght of imagination, the whole bloody pile exists there just for the purpose of taking your control away and massaging you into nice munchable bites of data for the G-machine...!

I suggest that you do the sensible thing and lose android, which means both the real thing and anything that is capable of running those applications...

As far as Wire is concerned, my understanding is that the situation isn't that bad: for the WebSocket fallback to work, it is only necessary that TLS v1.2 is available, and it may be possible to provide that to Alien Dalvik on SFOS by other methods than Google Play Services. This is really what my question is about. As I noted, Android Firefox seems to support TLS v1.2 without depending on Google Play Services.

If Wire absolutely required GCM and there was no fallback, then you are right, and I would have already dropped Wire

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