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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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[-] LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That's to prevent multiple entries by one person. Their security is very good, with audits and their products being largely open source (for this, PyPush. For Beeper Cloud, their Synapse fork and their bridges.). Only the parts that don't matter to security (the clients, mostly) are closed source.

[-] MarkPotatoes@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Btw will they continue to live as Element changed licences to Synapse and Dendrite projects ?

[-] LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. They have a fork of Synapse that they can continue to use even if the license prevents them from using upstream (which doesn't seem true, but I could be wrong).

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