Days after Mashable’s Kimberly Gedeon reported that the app Beeper Mini was right here to let Android customers textual content with blue “iMessage” bubbles, Apple seems to have shut down the app.
Sometimes, you want an Apple system and Apple ID to make use of iMessage. Nonetheless, as Gedeon acknowledged, Beeper Mini builders discovered find out how to affiliate a telephone quantity with iMessage to attach with Apple servers with a view to ship and obtain messages as if the Android telephone had been an iPhone.
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Whereas Beeper claimed that each one communication was end-to-end encrypted and safe, based on a weblog submit, Apple claimed that there are “important” dangers to safety and privateness. In a press release to The Verge, Apple senior PR supervisor Nadine Haija advised the outlet:
At Apple, we construct our services and products with industry-leading privateness and safety applied sciences designed to offer customers management of their knowledge and preserve private data protected. We took steps to guard our customers by blocking methods that exploit faux credentials with a view to achieve entry to iMessage. These methods posed important dangers to person safety and privateness, together with the potential for metadata publicity and enabling undesirable messages, spam, and phishing assaults. We’ll proceed to make updates sooner or later to guard our customers.
Beeper founder Eric Migicovsky then advised The Verge: “if Apple really cares concerning the privateness and safety of their very own iPhone customers, why would they cease a service that allows their very own customers to now ship encrypted messages to Android customers, slightly than utilizing unsecure SMS?”
SMS messages, which is how Android and Apple customers talk, are unencrypted. Beeper shared this quote on its X account, reiterating the declare that the app will increase safety:
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On Sunday, Beeper posted one other assertion on X, stating that it is working to get the app up and working once more. “Work continues to repair the difficulty inflicting the Beeper Mini outage,” the submit reads. “We all know how onerous this has been for many who liked utilizing Beeper Mini, and we’re extraordinarily sorry for the inconvenience. We’re feeling good, although, and hope to have excellent news to share quickly.”