Chris Remington@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 11 months agoThere’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually workswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down10cross-posted to: android@lemdro.id
arrow-up179arrow-down1external-linkThere’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually workswww.theverge.comChris Remington@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 11 months agomessage-square41fedilinkcross-posted to: android@lemdro.id
minus-squareIlliterate Domine@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·11 months agoThe difference, as I understand it, is Beeper hasn’t claimed to not be doing that. Sunbird/Nothing touted E2EE and that was a lie.
minus-squareatocci@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoThat makes sense I suppose. A company that doesn’t outright lie about how their service works would have more goodwill behind it, wouldn’t it.
minus-squarelea@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoBeeper’s backend is also fully open-source, there’s nothing stopping you from hosting your own iMessage bridge and accessing it via any matrix client.
minus-squarebeefcat@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-211 months agoIt wasn’t just that E2EE was a lie, their own server software was full of its own bugs that allowed third party access to user messages, which were stored unencrypted in their database.
The difference, as I understand it, is Beeper hasn’t claimed to not be doing that. Sunbird/Nothing touted E2EE and that was a lie.
That makes sense I suppose. A company that doesn’t outright lie about how their service works would have more goodwill behind it, wouldn’t it.
Beeper’s backend is also fully open-source, there’s nothing stopping you from hosting your own iMessage bridge and accessing it via any matrix client.
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It wasn’t just that E2EE was a lie, their own server software was full of its own bugs that allowed third party access to user messages, which were stored unencrypted in their database.