Comment on Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Seems like Beeper will see the cleartext of the replies, though, since they send the notifications via BPNs, right?
No, with this new app messages are encrypted between you and Apple’s iMessage servers using iMessage encryption more or less the same way an iPhone does.
The push service simply notifies your device it has a message waiting, no message content passes through Beeper servers.
I don’t know for sure, but often mobile notification protocols are more like “wake up and check your incoming messages” than “user foo says bar”. If this is true then the best they could do is collect timestamps of when you probably received messages.
LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 6 months ago
No, they know that a message has been received, but the phone is what decrypts the message. Beeper can’t see it.