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Just out of curiosity, why has nobody reverse-engineered iMessage to create an open-source client? I presume it is quite hard (the seems like an obvious thing t
by Gaelan 11y ago
Just out of curiosity, why has nobody reverse-engineered iMessage to create an open-source client? I presume it is quite hard (the seems like an obvious thing to attempt, iMessage has been available on the Mac where things like disassembly should be pretty easy for years); where does this challenge come from?
- zachlatta 11y agoIIRC, Apple issues unique keys to every iOS/OS X device they produce. This key is used to subscribe to APNS (which iMessage uses for data transfer). Without the key, you can't do much of anything.
- rahimnathwani 11y agoIt appears you can generate a key, and that Apple doesn't check whether the key corresponds to a piece of hardware they've sold: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/2wohwn/getting_imessage_working_on_10102_generating/ https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/2wohwn/getting_...