• wrath-sedan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m super into the idea of Beeper, but at the end of the day to get that level of interoperability you are trusting a third party with your login credentials to some very sensitive services that may also be tied to your financials (ie Apple ID). They state that it’s only saved once, and then encrypted so that they no longer have access, but still it’s a risk.

    So far I’m not convinced it’s worth the trade off even though I really want it to be. Curious what others think?

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      1 year ago

      I am super excited regardless of the risk of another middleman. I feel like I am the only one who doesn’t use an iPhone so this should shock them once I can try this out. I have an apple ID but really nothing ties to it that’s personal since I am not an apple person. I would be more concerned with whatsapp since I use that way more to communicate and probably have had a few things through the years sent that shouldn’t have. I do try to delete it right after though.

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      1 year ago

      They open-sourced their code which is nice and can help researchers inspect their security, plus it’s made by reputable people: the guy who made Pebble! I don’t have a use case for Beeper personally right now, but it seems really cool and I’m excited to see where it goes.

    • jaykob@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I don’t use it with iMessage, but I bridged WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram and Facebook. It works quite well, but I uninstalled it after maybe 2 weeks. There are too many features (understandably) missing, like surveys in WhatsApp, these bot chat buttons in Telegram and calls in general. And having the original apps and beeper installed defeats the purpose for me personally.

      I had to wait maybe 3 weeks after signing up.

    • bufordt@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I like the idea of it, but if I ever go down that route I’ll probably look into self hosting the system.