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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (15 children)

Their "how it works" blog article is worth a read - they're using a blackbox reverse engineering of the protocol and re-implementing it natively in the app, so there are no man-in-the-middle servers. Impressive software engineering for sure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

huh, interesting. so from a security perspective is there any other concern with this protocol? at least they're not using a mac relay server like Nothing Chats was

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The app itself is closed-source, but they use PyPush, which also has a blog post explaining how it works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can ask more questions on Reddit!

If you have any questions, I'm hosting an ask-me-anything on reddit.com/r/beeper - feel free to ask any questions you have for us there (after reading our blog posts first to see if it's already been answered!)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Heads up: People on Lemmy typically hate Reddit. That’s why we’re here and not there.

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