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The security and privacy of Beeper Mini is unchanged. It is still local, end-to-end encrypted on your device, as we described in our post.
what “they’ve been doing for several years” was relaying messages through Mac VMs, if I’m not mistaken, so it’s not exactly the same.
And the following as well:
Phone number registration is not working yet. All users must now sign in with an AppleID. Messages will be sent and received via your email address rather than phone number. We’re currently working on a fix for this.
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Do they really think they can “beat” some of the best programmers in the world that actually controls the servers their service is dependent on?
Compaq “beat” IBM.
Apple can only change the iMessage protocol itself very slowly if they don’t want to break service for millions of older iPhones. Beeper Mini can and will change on a dime. The cat and mouse can only go so far before Apple run out of ways to try to fuck them over that don’t fuck over millions of legitimate users.
Not just that. Apple themselves beat Microsoft where they reverse engineered MS Office and played the cat and mouse game long enough that Microsoft released their office file format specifications publicly for everyone as a standardized format.
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I don’t know anything about Compaq. Was their business built on reverse engineering IBMs system and impersonating IBM hardware to gain unauthorized access to their servers and services?
It was actually even more hardcore than that. They reverse engineered IBM’s BIOS to create the first fully compatible non-IBM PC that could run MS-DOS and all IBM PC software natively. Then they won in court after proving they didn’t copy any of IBM’s source code and that the people who programmed the compatible BIOS had never even seen the original documentation for the IBM code, let alone the code itself.
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