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Is it safe to use Signal via Beeper? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mulcahey@lemmy.world to c/signal@lemmy.ml
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I love Signal. But despite my best efforts, I still have friends using WA and iMessage. Managing multiple apps is kinda a pain. Beeper offers a convenient way to combine them into one interface, and it claims to re-encrypt the content. Does anyone know anything about this claim?

From their website:

Messages sent using Beeper to other chat networks are re-encrypted if the other network supports encryption (like Signal, WhatsApp and iMessage).

So..Safe? Or no?

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[–] v3ritas@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do have a self-host option, but I haven’t had the chance to dig into it yet: GitHub: beeper/self-host

[–] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, that's good to know, that'd definitely alleviate some of my issues, so I guess the concern comes down to whether the client itself is open source or not and if it can be trusted.

[–] v3ritas@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, definitely. Maybe I'll have some time this weekend to play around with the server & some dummy accounts to see how it all goes.

[–] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let me know how it goes if you do get to play around with it. I'm definitely interested in the idea and concept of Beeper, like being able to use WhatsApp without having the app installed on your phone seems nice, same with using iMessage without an iPhone. If its done right and safely, it could definitely be worthwhile.