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jdrch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Yeah I was wondering how they were pulling that off without registering the phone number or iCloud account with Apple.

In any case, this also shows that iMessage can be spoofed.

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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They were registering the number and iCloud account, that’s how it works.

They just built their own ANP service to interface with GCM.

I tried it, it used my existing iCloud account to send messages. Could do that if it didn’t connect to iCloud and get the RSA key.

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- jdrch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  to stop using it you have to de-register your phone number from iCloud.
  
  Ah, TIL. I was wondering that. I’ll avoid it then.
  
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  - FierySpectre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well the whole deal was that you were interacting with an official apple service directly… so having to register for an apple account doesn’t seem that strange.
    
    They merely took out the intermediary step of the relay with real apple hardware (Macs)
    
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