Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com
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

  • felixwhynot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Seems like Beeper will see the cleartext of the replies, though, since they send the notifications via BPNs, right?

    [edit: thanks for the replies. I see now the footnote on their BPNs diagram: “Push notification does not contain message contents” so it seems like the answer is “no they will not”]

    • LinuxSBC@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      No, they know that a message has been received, but the phone is what decrypts the message. Beeper can’t see it.

    • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      No, with this new app messages are encrypted between you and Apple’s iMessage servers using iMessage encryption more or less the same way an iPhone does.

      The push service simply notifies your device it has a message waiting, no message content passes through Beeper servers.

    • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know for sure, but often mobile notification protocols are more like “wake up and check your incoming messages” than “user foo says bar”. If this is true then the best they could do is collect timestamps of when you probably received messages.