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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure how SMS works in a wi-fi context, but SMS has never been end-to-end encrypted, and service providers have always been able to capture and store the contents of SMS messages.[/quote]

It's essentially unencrypted end-to-end (as opposed to broadcast).  It just uses the WiFi network as a carrier.  So, unless you are one of the endpoints, you won't see the traffic.  Someone that is on the network and can scan all of the traffic can pick up the transmissions if they can figure out the headers that the traffic is using, but it's not as simple as picking up broadcast traffic like http or email which just broadcasts for someone to answer and forward the packets to the next hop.

For those not in network administration, what this means is that someone sitting on the network that has the right software on their device that can search and find SMS/text messages and can decipher the headings can read anything.  But it is not as simple as tracking your unencrypted (http) web searching.  Doable, but not as trivial unless you have the right tools.[/quote]
You need to look carefully at your messaging app to see if it's actual, traditional, SMS.

Android phones will now often use RCS, which [url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/19/21574451/android-rcs-encryption-message-end-to-end-beta]is end-to-end encrypted[/url].[/quote]

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