Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works

pickleprattle@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sunbird just relayed messages back and forth using a Mac mini in a warehouse. They probably had something that read the messages app on there and sent to their app on the phone through their servers, and seemingly forgot to encrypt anything during this process.

  This is actually sending messages as iMessage. It’s been reverse engineered which is an incredible feat, iMessage has been out like …10+ years? And no one figured it out yet until this 16yr old rocks up.

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  • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doesn’t iMessage require some sort of Apple-issued device id? (which is easy to block if over-used).

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    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It does, the article actually mentions that. Yes, they did get around or reverse-engineer it. The article does not describe how, though I imagine it’s doing the same sort of workaround that Hackintoshes have to do. Honestly, it’s quite a feat.

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      • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Check out my reply

        I posted some links that get into the details of how the tech works

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    • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How did they get around this?

      This blog post does a fairly good job outlining the tech

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      • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks, the second link talks about this in the “data.plist” and Mac serial numbers section.

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