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I've tried it out of curiosity, it works for me. I had a link where they recommended clicking though, to fix it and to make it work. I don't see it on your screenshot. I think I got a (slightly different) warning with a link when I tried to open Silence as an app. Regardless, it was essentially to open Settings > Apps > All Apps > find Silence > click somewhere (I forgot where exactly) to enable the potentially very unsafe thing of full SMS access. I think it was on the top right where I needed to click in the last step. Afterwards, Silence can be selected as the default SMS handler. That being said, I personally mostly use Signal and Matrix nowadays. The phone lasts for.. 2 days probably? IDK. I'm not really happy with either messenger BTW, but it's the best shot for now, for me

Grok this grok that… I’m sorry, but ***k grok. Stop posting about it.

For the security aspect, I've skimmed through the code, it seems the "building blocks" that they are using (security primitives) are still relevant as of today. Namely I've found AES, ed25519, Hmac. The code itself is mostly taken from Text Secure (now Signal) at a point when they've decided to drop SMS support in order to focus on their own network (bypassing SMS). Personally I'd trust it more than raw SMS at least. I think I'd mostly trust it. I use Element/XMPP/Signal mostly though. In fact I've stopped using Silence few years ago.. Somehow thinking outside of the SMS box now.

If you want to patch the problem instead of fully solving it, you can use the Silence app from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.smssecure.smssecure It encrypts your SMS'es, so there's literally no battery drain to keep "connected". Note: you'll need to open F-Droid repo's setting and click "archive".