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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

They're doing more than riding on apples services for free. They had to build and run a notification relay server to make this work.

Same thing that's been in the news about Apple sharing info with police. The content of the messages are ETE encrypted but notifications of who is talking to who is not

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My objection wouldn’t be that they didn’t put in enough effort, because it was clearly a lot, but that the service is a doomed idea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Same thing that's been in the news about some sharing info with police. The comment of the messages are ete encrypted but notifications of who is talking to who is not

Beeper Mini's GCM server only handles a "new message waiting" trigger, it doesn't contain any private data like who the message is from or its contents, just that a new message is available.