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[–] IlliteratiDomine@infosec.pub 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The difference, as I understand it, is Beeper hasn't claimed to not be doing that. Sunbird/Nothing touted E2EE and that was a lie.

[–] atocci@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That makes sense I suppose. A company that doesn't outright lie about how their service works would have more goodwill behind it, wouldn't it.

[–] lea@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago

Beeper's backend is also fully open-source, there's nothing stopping you from hosting your own iMessage bridge and accessing it via any matrix client.

[–] beefcat@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It wasn't just that E2EE was a lie, their own server software was full of its own bugs that allowed third party access to user messages, which were stored unencrypted in their database.