Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution | TechCrunch
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,

Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper’s ‘iMessage to Android’ solution::U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,

  • dlpkl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    463·
    1 year ago

    Same reason the EU forced apple to change to usb-c. It benefits consumers.

    • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1021·
      1 year ago

      Apple is already adopting RCS. There’s no benefit here other than to spammers looking for a backdoor into iMessage.

      • BugFinder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        169·
        1 year ago

        You seem confident about “no benefit here”. Are you sure about that or is that the flavor of the boot polish that you are tasting?

        Also, “backdoor into iMessage”, wtf?

        • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          79·
          1 year ago

          Proprietary, closed source, third-party software that hasn’t been audited by a third party, that’s hooking into another proprietary protocol without the owner of said protocol’s approval.

          Sounds to me like Apple fixed a security vulnerability they were exploiting to gain access to the platform. Honestly it reminds me of Microsoft and AOL with the AIM and MSN Messenger wars. I believe AIM used a buffer overflow on purpose for authentication, despite it being a serious security vulnerability.

          • quo@feddit.ukEnglish
            02·
            1 year ago

            Sounds to me like Apple fixed a security vulnerability

            Then you don’t understand what you’re talking about.

            They figured out a communication protocol, they didn’t hack into encrypted files.