Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android

Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android by chatmasta on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:00PM (#38537538)

Wait, how does this work? Is it using Handoff and sending from your phone, or Beeper is just a GUI and you've extracted a token from your personal phone to use with Beeper on your work device?

Btw, this is mostly unrelated, but do you work for a large company? I'd assume most security teams would have a problem with a setup like this.

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Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android by altintx on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:39PM (#38537921)

Neither. Their cloud server is a farm of Mac Minis or similar. Then Beeper Cloud is basically a proxy from the app to that data center.

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Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android by chatmasta on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:50PM (#38538051)

Ah I see. I thought I remembered reading about that on Twitter (in the context of people criticizing it as false advertising). So basically this Beeper mini is the "proper" implementation of full e2e encryption, while the cloud service was the bridge to get them here?

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Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android by altintx on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:58PM (#38538133)

That's my understanding, yeah. I don't love my apple ID being signed into a box I can't access, so would love to see THIS service go cross platform.

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