TNW 314: Reverse Engineering iMessage with Beeper Mini - Tracking Software, Beeper Mini, Push Notifications
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Some college students are becoming subjected to tracking "opportunities" during their daily lives on campus. How Beeper Mini works in light of news that Beeper has brought iMessage to Android phones. And Apple has confirmed that governments are spying on people's phones through push notifications.
- Tara García Mathewson from The Markup joins the show to talk about her article detailing a college students' day as they are subjected to a plethora of software tracking one's data on computers, how it's being shared with colleges, and the general privacy implications of being a college student.
- Beeper has announced an app called Beeper Mini that brings iMessage to Android phones. Eric Migicovsky, co-founder of Beeper, stops by to discuss the app.
- Mikah Sargent shares his story of the week about how Apple has confirmed that governments are spying on people's phones through push notifications that we regularly get.
- And Jason Howell shares some big news at the end of the show.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jason Howell
Guests: Tara García Mathewson and Eric Migicovsky
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on Tech News Weekly, it's me, Jason Howell. |
| 0:03.0 | I start things off talking with Tara Garcia Matheson who wrote a report for the markup |
| 0:07.4 | all about the crazy privacy implications of being a college student in 2023. |
| 0:12.6 | Ooh, it is a doozy. |
| 0:13.8 | And I'm Micah Sergeant. |
| 0:15.1 | I speak to Eric Mijikovsky of Beeper |
| 0:18.0 | about Beeper Many a way for you |
| 0:21.0 | to join the Blue Bubble Boat and how a young developer reverse engineered |
| 0:26.4 | i Message. |
| 0:27.4 | Then my story of the week, it's another PSA this time about how Apple and Google say governments are spying on people's phones by way of push |
| 0:36.4 | notifications. That's so weird. I'm so blown away that I never thought about that. |
| 0:40.8 | And finally I've got some really big news to share with you |
| 0:44.2 | that's coming up at the end of the show check it out. Tech News Weekly is next. |
| 0:48.0 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 0:54.0 | This is Twint. |
| 0:57.0 | This is Twint. This is Tech News Weekly, episode, recorded Thursday, December 7th, |
| 1:05.0 | 2023, reverse engineering eye message with Beeper Minnie. |
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