Truly!! I hope Apple makes the hard but BRAVE decision to just ban texting altogether. Don't have an iPhone?? I don't need your filth in my life! Don't tarnish my Tim Cook-blessed device with your trashy Android-tainted SMS. iMessage or NoMessage.
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Sunbird - iMessage on Android!
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Yes, it’s completely legitimate for an entity, be a person or company, to have complete access to a personal account that the owner gives them the password to. It’s probably a bad idea on the user's part, but it’s completely legitimate.
I don’t want rogue apps snooping on my location data, financial apps, texts, images, videos and any other stuff. I love the freedom to load what ever app on mac, but I don’t have sensitive personal information on Mac. Apple isn’t perfect but does a pretty good job as gate keeper.
Like I said, you want side loading, Android already provides the option. I don’t want iPhone becoming another android phone in wild Wild West.
I haven’t said a thing about whether I think it’s completely legitimate. If you’d like to know, I wouldn’t surrender my Apple ID credentials to this company if they paid me.
I initially responded to your assertion that this is “obviously illegal,” which was and still is plainly false.
Yeah, that was why I was kind of hesistant on doing it and some features were missing as well. But some people are willing to take that chance given the opportunity to actually leave the iPhone for Android.
Y’all seem to be missing the fact that you can create a burner ID if you don’t feel comfortable using your main one.
You create a vCard with the app which you send along to your contacts so they know it’s you and they just add that id to your contact. Not that hard.
You create a vCard with the app which you send along to your contacts so they know it’s you and they just add that id to your contact. Not that hard.
Yeah.
I also ask communication partners what phone they use. Always, coz its important to me. 🙄
I'm really enjoying Beeper. I don't ever send anything through iMessage that's that personal or confidential and I keep things clean on my phones in the case my kids use them and decide to snoop lol. I'll monitor my Apple ID activity but I'm not overly concerned at this point. It really is a huge step up from AirMessage. I haven't tried Blue Bubbles yet and still aim to, I just have to find the time to sit down and get it set up.
Not to mention with 2FA, the company can't actually access your Apple account willy nilly.
I don't see how they would have access to your messages, but not the rest of your account willy nilly.
After reading the Privacy & Security page on their website, it appears this whole discussion of how it may be legal because of a "Mac in the Middle" is irrelevant.
The company claims that the messages are E2E encrypted and no messaging data is stored on their servers. So no Mac.
Sunbird: Empowering Your Trust through Privacy and Security
At Sunbird, we take your privacy and security seriously. Explore our commitment to safeguarding your data and providing a secure messaging experience that you can trust.
www.sunbirdapp.com
So unless Apple has secretly released a public API for iMessage, then we're back to unauthorized computer access. Or fraud if they're lying.
So you’re guessing. Got it.After reading the Privacy & Security page on their website, it appears this whole discussion of how it may be legal because of a "Mac in the Middle" is irrelevant.
The company claims that the messages are E2E encrypted and no messaging data is stored on their servers. So no Mac.
Sunbird: Empowering Your Trust through Privacy and Security
At Sunbird, we take your privacy and security seriously. Explore our commitment to safeguarding your data and providing a secure messaging experience that you can trust.
So unless Apple has secretly released a public API for iMessage, then we're back to unauthorized computer access. Or fraud if they're lying.
their Servers must be pretending to be Apple devices. Apple just need to ban their IP’s or block the device id’s to kill this service. As it’s a free app it can be used by spammers etc to send iMessages en’masse.
So much cringe, this must be a troll account. You got me at first I admit it
The company claims that the messages are E2E encrypted and no messaging data is stored on their servers. So no Mac.
Sunbird: Empowering Your Trust through Privacy and Security
At Sunbird, we take your privacy and security seriously. Explore our commitment to safeguarding your data and providing a secure messaging experience that you can trust.
End-to-end Encryption
Sunbird uses end-to-end encryption to ensure that messages are private and secure. This means that messages are encrypted on the user's device and can only be decrypted by the intended recipient’s account. The encryption process is automatic and requires no additional input from the user, making it simple and seamless. With end-to-end encryption, Sunbird ensures that only the intended recipient can read messages, and that even if a third party were to intercept them, they would be unable to decipher the contents.IMO, this is dubiously worded
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Not getting the illegality comment. How exactly is this illegal?
This has been in test since last year. So far all of the claims listed have worked.
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Well, I find it very strange that iMessage which is tied to Apple Hardware and there's no public API to which users can access to it... yet both companies are attempting to make money off of it.
And in addition to that, Apple refuse to make iMessage cross platform and you think they will sit idle by while another company do it. If there was no issue with this process, you don't think Google would have done this already (instead of campaigning to Apple against using SMS)? Have it implemented into their Google Message app along with RCS.