Co-founder denies Apple's claims of security and privacy concerns for its users.

Apple blocked Beeper Mini’s iMessage Android app, but Beeper will keep pushing::Co-founder denies Apple’s claims of security and privacy concerns for its users.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      It’ll be a fun watch if they do.

      Pretty sure Apple doesn’t want their dirty laundry on the front page every day.

      Like how iMessage isn’t nearly as secure as they claim. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537444

      And they haven’t done anything about these issues in 4 years.

      Or that contrary to their claim that this is protecting their users, forcing them to downgrade to SMS for any conversation off of iOS/OSX means all those messages are sent in the clear, for anyone to read.

      Beeper has also exposed any claim they want to make that iMessage can’t be integrated with other platforms.

      It’s interesting to watch, for sure.

        • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          That particular defense has historically been a little shaky. That said since it’s a corporation that would be using it in this case instead of some random hacker (in the MIT sense) or Chinese company it would have a better chance of holding up in court.

          I’m betting though that Apple won’t even bother with trying a DMCA based suit, but rather will argue some kind of TOS violations.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Migicovsky suggested to The Verge and TechCrunch Friday that Beeper’s data indicated action on Apple’s side to block the service.

    Apple “took steps to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials in order to gain access to iMessage,” the statement read.

    Citing “metadata exposure and enabling unwanted messages, spam, and phishing attacks,” Apple stated it would “continue to make updates in the future to protect our users.”

    “In fact, [Beeper Mini] has increased security and decreased exposure for Apple’s users,” Migicovsky said, especially compared to standard SMS.

    Reddit user moptop and others suggested that Beeper’s service used encryption algorithms whose keys were spoofed to look like they came from a Mac Mini running OS X Mountain Lion, perhaps providing Apple a means of pinpointing and block them.

    This post was updated at 12:50 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 9, to reflect restored function to Beeper Cloud (desktop), and Migicovsky’s social media response after the outage.

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