There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually worksChris Remington@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org – 79 points – 7 months agotheverge.com46Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentThe 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.1 more...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.1 more...
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.1 more...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.1 more...
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.1 more...
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.
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.
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.
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.