Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
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Beeper Mini made Android users blue bubbles. Apple shut it down after only a few days.

At Apple, we build our products and services with industry-leading privacy and security technologies designed to give users control of their data and keep personal information safe. We took steps to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials in order to gain access to iMessage. These techniques posed significant risks to user security and privacy, including the potential for metadata exposure and enabling unwanted messages, spam, and phishing attacks. We will continue to make updates in the future to protect our users.

  • LoganXan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    There’d be no need for this product to begin with of they jumped on that RCS bandwagon that’s just as secure if not more so than iMessages, but sure, make those frivolous claims of yours like always, Apple.

    • bartleby1OPMEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      The RCS standard has no encryption whatsoever, it’s completely plain text, so you have no point here regarding security.

      I think you’ve conflated (as most people do) Google Messages’ proprietary modifications that run on top of and over RCS, with what RCS actually is.

    • rush@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Note that RCS as a standard doesn’t include End-To-End-Encryption because the telcom companies which designed it could not introduce that as per US law. Google added End-To-End-Encryption with Google Messages.