The new "iMessage on Android" app, Beeper Mini, was released on December 5 and offers iMessage blue bubbles and end-to-end encryption to Android users. On Friday, users found they could no longer send and receive messages.
They’re doing more than riding on apples services for free. They had to build and run a notification relay server to make this work.
Same thing that’s been in the news about Apple sharing info with police. The content of the messages are ETE encrypted but notifications of who is talking to who is not
Same thing that’s been in the news about some sharing info with police. The comment of the messages are ete encrypted but notifications of who is talking to who is not
Beeper Mini’s GCM server only handles a “new message waiting” trigger, it doesn’t contain any private data like who the message is from or its contents, just that a new message is available.
They’re doing more than riding on apples services for free. They had to build and run a notification relay server to make this work.
Same thing that’s been in the news about Apple sharing info with police. The content of the messages are ETE encrypted but notifications of who is talking to who is not
My objection wouldn’t be that they didn’t put in enough effort, because it was clearly a lot, but that the service is a doomed idea.
Beeper Mini’s GCM server only handles a “new message waiting” trigger, it doesn’t contain any private data like who the message is from or its contents, just that a new message is available.