The big question for Android users is why would they would want to impersonate being an iPhone user? Is iMessage that mush better than anything than Android has to offer that they feel the need to pretend they are using an iPhone? I thought the reason they use Android is because they think it’s vastly superior. Guess not.
Oh, and by the way, when RCS comes to iMessage Android users will still be green bubbles. Apple has confirmed this.
Trying to guess at why individual people chose one platform over another is a moot point. Though the reason for using something like Beeper is clearly to enable E2EE for messaging with iPhone users.
Who’s to say beepers method DOES still provided E2EE? Nothing and Sunbird’s attempt sure as **** didn’t, even though they vociferously claimed to.
This absolutely does affect iPhone users, if their devices are tricked into thinking the other device they’re communicating with is an iPhone but really is some android hack job with god knows what level of insight given to the company making it possible on the android’s end. If you can’t trust that your iMessages are going to iPhones, rather than to androids where some third party is helping facilitate their delivery, that 100% introduces a level of risk, and it devalues iMessage as a service because it’s less trustworthy if someone can pretend to have an iPhone. See: nothing storing message content in plaintext.
If you’re so vain that you NEED blue bubbles, buy a damn iPhone, it’s not this serious.
lol... I was going to ask you to provide possible insight into how spoofing an iPhone to enable encryption would somehow cause a security risk to anything else, but you clearly don't just drink the kool-aid, you sprouted gills and live in the bowl.
And to be fair, I don't think anyone outside iPhone users truly care about the concept of the "blue bubble". It's not about vanity, it's about the features and functionality. Or should be-- at any rate.
it doesn't matter if it is magical or not, they should not be doing this with out Apple's approval.
If someone can manage to reverse engineer a product and make a copy product is it ok ?
...yes. That's the entire concept of reverse engineering. There's been countless examples of products releasing as the result of reverse engineering that were not only better than the original, but also rendered the original obsolete.
They have absolutely zero case, or chance to fight it actually. They found a security vulnerability in iMessage. Beeper may have positive intentions in exploiting it. That doesn't stop it from being a security vulnerability. There is nothing stopping a malicious actor exploiting it to harm Apple users by pretending to be someone they are not.
Sure, and Apple has every right (and potential obligation) to patch such a flaw.
But I still don't see how this flaw, whose sole purpose is to enable encryption, presents any kind of a security risk to any user. If the encryption is truly secure, one Android user pretending to be an iPhone user would not and should not have any ability to impact any other feature of iMessage, let alone the phone.
And if this spoof truly poses such a grave risk, then Apple's entire iMessage service has turned out to be a greater liability than a boon all these years.
But likely this isn't the case, and again it's just the usual drinkers fearing for their "privacy" when anything upsets their delicate garden.
