Chris Remington to Technology@beehaw.org • 7 months agoThere’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually workswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldapple_enthusiast@lemmy.worldandroid@lemdro.id
arrow-up179arrow-down1external-linkThere’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually workswww.theverge.comChris Remington to Technology@beehaw.org • 7 months agomessage-square46fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldapple_enthusiast@lemmy.worldandroid@lemdro.id
minus-squareIlliterate DominelinkfedilinkEnglish10•7 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-squareatoccilinkfedilink8•7 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-square@lea@feddit.delinkfedilink5•7 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-square@beefcat@beehaw.orglinkfedilink6•edit-27 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.