More and more of the internet is now moving behind Cloudflare, one feature at a time. I saved some serious amount of money by just by using free service they offer.
I am astonished every time Cloudflare comes up with a solution for the problems of the internet.
> More and more of the internet is now moving behind Cloudflare
This is a big double-standard here on HN. Everyone hates Google for making decisions on behalf of the internet as a whole; yet Cloudflare has done the exact same thing with a different OSI layer.
I'm not very trusting of Google, but I certainly dont trust Cloudflare any more-so, because they keep things much closer to the chest.
Right now I can presume a basic level of device security across all iMessage threads I have. Beeper deranges that: E2EE is still there, but Beeper exposes my correspondence to device security weaknesses from other OEMs, malware, keyloggers, screen scrapers, etc. as a result of lax app marketplace security & privacy.
It seems to me to be entirely disingenuous to suggest that Beeper increases security: in fact, the opposite is true.
> in the end Apple absolutely has the power of increasing everyone's capability and security by doing something like setting up a playbook of how iMessage could just use Signal protocol and how other actors could join in, or really anything else but doing this.
I don't see why any company should be denigrated for not helping the users of another competing platform, particularly when doing so likely comes at the cost of increasing the risk to its own users.
Is that really true though? Jailbroken phones, iMessage may still work. Any device security gets thrown out the window.
You also can't expect everyone to have an Apple device for security, which we've seen time and time again SS7 being weak - So is the requirement to remove SS7, for everyone to jump on the Apple train?
I see Beeper as doing Apple a service, not so much a competing platform, but a gateway to the iMessage ecosystem - 'Hey, this would be pretty cool to use without this app and have it native' vs the 'Only Apple devices can use this.'