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There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That sounds exactly like what what Nothing Chats was shamed for a couple weeks ago, how has Beeper been fairing so well?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Beeper's entire premise is based on decrypting your messages on their servers, re-encrypting them and sending them to you, and pinky promising that they're not reading them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

So it really is the exact same thing as Nothing Chats then? I don't think I trust them any more than Sunbird...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Beeper can be self-hosted if you have a Mac, so you don't have to trust their servers
Sunbird's app (Nothing Chat) was riddled with its own security vulnerabilities that allowed users to read other users messages, which were all stored as unencrypted plaintext, all discovered by the community within 24 hours of launch
Beeper is actually open about how their technology works and what it's limitations are, while Sunbird/Nothing basically lied about their product and never provided any meaningful documentation

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Not even close. Sunbird was not open source and was storing plaintext messages on their servers.