Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage,
“if Apple truly cares about the privacy and security of their own iPhone users, why would they stop a service that enables their own users to now send encrypted messages to Android users, rather than using unsecure SMS?”
One of these things are their own iPhone users. One of them is not.
Swoosh.
If you want security, stay in the Apple ecosystem and you don’t need to send to insecure android users.
A public statement about this being for security can’t possibly be more dumb than Beeper purchasing an open source cross-platform iMessage proof of concept which specifically spoofs old, fake Apple devices, publicizing and commercializing it with a monthly subscription, and crying foul when Apple swiftly finds that same repository on GitHub and patches the method.
You know, that sounds exactly like what closing a security vulnerability would entail.
That would seem to imply that tech commenters know less than Apple about Apple’s own servers. Shocking.
My bet is that is if Apple comments at all, they will talk about closing a security vulnerability rather than cutting off android users.
Aaaand you were right!
And the founders quote is hilarious.
“if Apple truly cares about the privacy and security of their own iPhone users, why would they stop a service that enables their own users to now send encrypted messages to Android users, rather than using unsecure SMS?”
One of these things are their own iPhone users. One of them is not.
Swoosh.
If you want security, stay in the Apple ecosystem and you don’t need to send to insecure android users.
You would have be dumb enough to buy apple products to believe that.
A public statement about this being for security can’t possibly be more dumb than Beeper purchasing an open source cross-platform iMessage proof of concept which specifically spoofs old, fake Apple devices, publicizing and commercializing it with a monthly subscription, and crying foul when Apple swiftly finds that same repository on GitHub and patches the method.
You know, that sounds exactly like what closing a security vulnerability would entail.