Maybe I’m just being hopeful, but I don’t think the vagina thing is as big of an influence as it seems. First, we only have a sample size of two.

One of them, Clinton, was just an objectively awful person. She wasn’t popular with anyone, including women.

The second, Harris, had an abbreviated campaign caused by Biden’s unwillingness to step down. She also wasn’t built up in preparation fora campaign during her VP term. On top of that, she was very unexciting policy-wise. Basically status quo when everybody is clamoring for progress.

Contrast that with Obama, who ran on “hope and change” and got people excited for actual progress. Which he didn’t deliver, but that’s another story.

Google knows this, of course, because all of those messages are now routed through Google. As SMS, they were moving through the carriers, but now they’re going through the carriers and Google.

And since end-to-end encryption in RCS is a proprietary extension, not available to non-Google implementations, all of these new messages are wide open and ready for Google to data mine.

Hooray! Big win for everybody?

No catchy name for the vulnerability? It can’t be that bad, then…