Letzte Woche ging die Nachricht um die Welt, dass US-Geheimdienste# Push-Nachrichten bei #Apple und #Google abschnorchelten. Hier ein Überblick über Dienste, die davon nicht betroffen seien:
iMessage Contact Key Verification provides additional security by helping to detect sophisticated threats against iMessage servers and allowing you to verify that you’re only messaging the people you intend to.
It is crazy that in the conversation around #imessage on #android with #beeper was the unspoken assumption that #apple would be happy to foot the bill for android users to use their service for free and let a third party company charge a subscription for using Apple resources.
Why would that ever work? What company would ever agree to that?
I was enjoying #BeeperMini on my #Android device and NOW Apple has come along, turned into the evil queen, poisoned the apple and turned off access to their network for the app. I'm not even mad I paid my $2 to Beeper, I'm more mad at CrApple for undermining the gapping security hole they have between Android and #iOS devices simply because #iMessage is the ONLY thing keeping people in the walled #Apple ecosystem at this point, at least on the mobile front. #rant
“But while #iMessage for #Android is good for Android users, it's also very good for #Apple customers, who can now get the #privacy and security guarantees of iMessage for all their contacts, not just the ones who bought the same kind of phone as they did. The stakes for communications breaches have never been higher, and antitrust scrutiny on Big Tech companies has never been so intense.” – Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)
Now that #iMessage has been reverse engineered, open sourced, and brought to #Android via the #BeeperMini app, what's to stop other messaging apps like @signalapp from adding iMessage integration?
New Beeper Mini app lets Android phones appear as blue bubbles in iMessage chats
This is a dedicated stand-alone Android app by Beeper which will carry a $1.99 pm subscription after the 7-day trial period. It validates via SMS as an iPhone 7 (just as an iPhone would) so no Apple ID is required, but there is also an optional Apple ID sign ...continues
How Beeper Mini Works (blog.beeper.com)
It's a technical deep dive, so buckle up!...