Well that didn’t take long…
• Beeper, the company behind iMessage for Android, faces an outage after Apple cuts off its access.
• The highly anticipated service, which brought blue bubble texts to Android, may have violated Apple’s terms of service.
• Beeper’s access to iMessage was revoked soon after its launch, raising questions about the feasibility of the service.
Not sure I would call it poor encryption. As yet, no one’s cracked that large of an RSA key.
I’d certainly call it less than advertised, and needing some updates like increase the RSA key, separate the encrypted message from the AES key, and use other mechanisms so it doesn’t have a single point if failure (the RSA key).
They also need to change the identifiers, since that has a risk of MITM attacks.
But yea, they’ve had 4 or 5 years and done nothing. That’s BAD.