Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users
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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
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We literally shut down another app doing this last week because it was so sketchy
The other app was running iMessage on Macs owned by the company and relaying the messages insecurely to its Android app. What we see here is a third-party implementation of the iMessage protocol running on Android devices directly, an example of adversarial interoperability.
The article specifically address this and explained the difference.
No. This is much more impressive, useful, secure, and sustainable because it's totally different internally.