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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

    • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      1 year 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.

    • LinuxSBC@lemm.eeEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

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