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Signal no longer wants you to use its messenger app to send SMS messages, and the privacy-oriented company has announced that SMS and MMS support will be phased out of the Android app in the coming months. Signal says it’s killing its SMS support due to the limited security and privacy of SMS, which unlike Signal messages are not encrypted. “The most important reason for us to remove SMS support from Android is that plaintext SMS messages are inherently insecure,” the company said. “They leak sensitive metadata and place your data in the hands of telecommunications companies.” Signal says it a…