- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
• A new Android app called Beeper Mini allows users to send iMessages as blue bubbles from non-Apple devices.
• Beeper Mini bypasses traditional iMessage hacks by directly sending iMessages from Android devices.
• The app has been praised for its smooth functionality, sending messages seamlessly between Android and iPhone users.
Doesn’t iMessage require some sort of Apple-issued device id? A key, unique to a device, hard-coded in the SoC? (which is easy to block if over-used).
Which is why hackintoshes used to require crazy workarounds to get this working, even with Apple’s own software, if I remember correctly (never tried myself, could be wrong).
How did they get around this? (did they?)
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.
Check out my reply
I posted some links that get into the details of how the tech works
This blog post does a fairly good job outlining the tech
You can also take a look at the pypush proof-of-concept code that this is based on
Thanks, the second link talks about this in the
"data.plist" and Mac serial numberssection.