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The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

  • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    I tend to trust actual open source projects over closed-source ones. Beeper Mini is closed source. And Beeper is a separate app not really relevant to this discussion.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      You should read the docs. It’s impressive.

      I get where you’re coming from, but after readinhow badly security is implemented in iMessage frankly I trust the Beeper devs more than Apple.

      Get this, iMessage delivers the AES encrypted message in a package with the AES key, that package is encrypted with your RSA key.

      iMessage lacks forward secrecy. So if anyone ever got your RSA key, they could read all your messages, including past messages, because your RSA key never changes!

      • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I can’t trust Beeper more than Apple on one major technicality… Trusting them requires trusting Apple, at least for now. And I question why I had to sign in to their Mini apps with a Google account.

        I’m impressed by the reverse engineering, but hey maybe they could introduce some good encryption on the side for their potentially expanding user base. And probably integrate their two apps… Unless they already basically have.