• @noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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    171 year ago

    Beeper’s entire premise is based on decrypting your messages on their servers, re-encrypting them and sending them to you, and pinky promising that they’re not reading them.

    • atocci
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      21 year ago

      So it really is the exact same thing as Nothing Chats then? I don’t think I trust them any more than Sunbird…

      • @beefcat@beehaw.org
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        221 year ago
        • Beeper can be self-hosted if you have a Mac, so you don’t have to trust their servers
        • Sunbird’s app (Nothing Chat) was riddled with its own security vulnerabilities that allowed users to read other users messages, which were all stored as unencrypted plaintext, all discovered by the community within 24 hours of launch
        • Beeper is actually open about how their technology works and what it’s limitations are, while Sunbird/Nothing basically lied about their product and never provided any meaningful documentation
      • Illiterate Domine
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        101 year ago

        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
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          71 year ago

          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
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            51 year 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
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          1 year 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.