APPLE CUTS OFF BEEPER MINI’S ACCESS AFTER LAUNCH OF SERVICE THAT BROUGHT IMESSAGE TO ANDROID

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Beeper Mini, an app that brought iMessage to Android, recently experienced an outage. It appeared that Apple found a way to make the app stop functioning. The service is now back online. Apple claims that the app poses significant risks to user security and privacy. Beeper claims that its service increases iPhone security as without it, texts would be sent to Android devices unencrypted.