The security and privacy of Beeper Mini is unchanged. It is still local, end-to-end encrypted on your device, as we described in our post.
what "they've been doing for several years" was relaying messages through Mac VMs, if I'm not mistaken, so it's not exactly the same.
And the following as well:
Phone number registration is not working yet. All users must now sign in with an AppleID. Messages will be sent and received via your email address rather than phone number. We’re currently working on a fix for this.
what "they've been doing for several years" was relaying messages through Mac VMs, if I'm not mistaken, so it's not exactly the same.
And the following as well: