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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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[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

We literally shut down another app doing this last week because it was so sketchy

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

The other app was running iMessage on Macs owned by the company and relaying the messages insecurely to its Android app. What we see here is a third-party implementation of the iMessage protocol running on Android devices directly, an example of adversarial interoperability.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

The article specifically address this and explained the difference.

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

No. This is much more impressive, useful, secure, and sustainable because it's totally different internally.