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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users (techcrunch.com)

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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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[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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.ee 17 points 2 years ago

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

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