#2365: Messaging Systems
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A Venn Diagram is shown, framed in a box. It has three components:
Vaguely Modern, E2E Encrypted, Supported By Everyone
Items Solely in the Vaguely Modern category are:
Facebook Messenger, Hangouts, Discord, Various DMs
Items In both 'Vaguely Modern' and 'E2E Encrypted' categories are:
Signal, iMessage, Whatsapp
Items Solely in the E2E Encrypted category are:
PGP Email, Various Obscure Projects, Skype I think, XMPP and XMPP + XEP-0384: OMEMO
Items Solely in the 'Supported By Everyone' category is:
SMS
All other categories are empty.
[Caption below the comic]: Why SMS refuses to die
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:SMS is just the worst, but I'm having trouble convincing people to adopt my preferred system, TLS IRC with a local server and a patched DOSBox gateway running in my mobile browser.