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That sounds exactly like what what Nothing Chats was shamed for a couple weeks ago, how has Beeper been fairing so well?
Beeper's entire premise is based on decrypting your messages on their servers, re-encrypting them and sending them to you, and pinky promising that they're not reading them.
So it really is the exact same thing as Nothing Chats then? I don't think I trust them any more than Sunbird...
The difference, as I understand it, is Beeper hasn't claimed to not be doing that. Sunbird/Nothing touted E2EE and that was a lie.
That makes sense I suppose. A company that doesn't outright lie about how their service works would have more goodwill behind it, wouldn't it.
Beeper's backend is also fully open-source, there's nothing stopping you from hosting your own iMessage bridge and accessing it via any matrix client.
It wasn't just that E2EE was a lie, their own server software was full of its own bugs that allowed third party access to user messages, which were stored unencrypted in their database.