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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users (techcrunch.com)

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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

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[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Notice how in the article they say "we're not the middle man... Any more"? That's because, up until now, Beeper has been working on a system where they operate as a middle man for your data.

To be fair they never claimed otherwise and all of the code for the bridges are open-sourced and can be run on your own servers so that those servers you control (as opposed to Beeper-owned servers) act as a "middle man" and none of your messages need be trusted to a 3rd party.

To put it simply: only the actual bridge on Beeper Cloud has access to unencrypted messages and you do have the option to run the bridge yourself while continuing to use the Beeper app. You can use as many or as few self-hosted bridges as you'd like.

A few bridges are preconfigured for self-hosting with just a couple of clicks for free through fly.io here