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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,

  • quo@feddit.ukEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    Sounds to me like Apple fixed a security vulnerability

    No, the protocol to send messenges was reversed engineered. That doesn’t grant access to any sensitive information whatsoever.

    Neither Apple, nor anyone in any of these threads can name even one hypothetical reason this would be a security vulnerability.

    The 1 and only reason for Apple to do this is so that you need to give them money for blue bubbles.

    Figuring out how the chat protocol works is very different than breaking into a protected server, which many people seem to think happened.

    • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      1 year ago

      Of course Apple doesn’t want others to access the iMessage protocol. It’s part of their walled garden. They can claim it’s a secure protocol because they have full control over it. An application like Beeper gaining access undermines this.

      Beeper doesn’t access some sort of global repository of messages, but we’ve no idea what Beeper does with the conversations that are had via their clients. With iMessages you trust Apple, feel about that how you will, with Beeper you trust whoever is in charge of that.

      Beeper is never going to last anyway. If they manage to regain access to iMessages, Apple will just update the protocol to reject them again. With Apple implementing RCS there’s not really any point in applying legal pressure on Apple to open up their platform either.

        • LilPappyWigwam@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Just hopping on to concur:

          “Apple could release their own iMessage client for Android if this were really about trusting beeper, but it’s not. It’s about using peer pressure with blue bubbles to sell more iPhones.”

          It’s just that simple (and offensive).

      • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        They can claim it’s a secure protocol because they have full control over it. An application like Beeper gaining access undermines this.

        Claiming their protocol is “security by obscurity” would not be the win for them you think it is.