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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

With the original Beeper app you made an Apple ID through Apples website to use for setting up iMessage. This does require folks having the email in order to use iMessage, so definetly worth setting up an alias. It still works, while Beeper Mini doesn't apparently.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It still works

Yes and allowing beeper to MaInTheMiddle your messages does not present any security issues at all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Their Matrix bridge is open source, and (at least they claim) everything is E2E encrypted. I love Beeper, and as unstable of a service as it is, it's still really great and I fully trust it with my messages. Waited 2 years for this service and I'm gonna use it lol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

It is end to bridge encrypted. I trust them too but I still prefer to self-host this stuff.

https://www.beeper.com/faq#how-does-beeper-connect-to-encrypted-chat-networks-like-imessage-signal-whatsapp

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

everything is E2E encrypted

not really. an E2E encrypted message is decrypted on their server, and then reencrypted before they sent it to the recipient.