Well if it’s all handled by Apple I can assume that there is a reasonable amount of security in the way the message is stored.

If a third party gets involved, then I don’t know if the message is read, copied, or stored insecurely by them.

I reall hope apples does not store or can even read the data. Otherwise it would be a really bad messaging protocol (privacy and security wise).

If a third party gets involved and you don’t know if they message is read, thennone of your messages were ever secure to begin with.

Apple can’t have it both ways here.

Is iMessage secure? Yes or no. There’s no inbetween.

If the answer is “yes”, then it’s impossible for Beeper to be doing anything that would compromise that security.

If the answer is “no”, then under what justification are they shutting it down?