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Even the best script kiddie would get bloody fingers trying to type in every possible phone number or iCloud address There's no API. No real way to automate.
by feld 10y ago
Even the best script kiddie would get bloody fingers trying to type in every possible phone number or iCloud address
There's no API. No real way to automate.
- goda90 10y agoA robotic auto-dialer could fix that. Perhaps an app on a jailbroken phone could inject numbers into the input field?
- throwanem 10y agoIt'd be easier to automate the Messages app on an OS X device. Another concern would be that Apple is likely to deactivate an ID used to send this kind of malicious spam at any sort of scale.
- Fnoord 10y ago> Another concern would be that Apple is likely to deactivate an ID used to send this kind of malicious spam at any sort of scale. Apple IDs can be easily remade. ProductIDs can be faked on a Hackintosh.
- natch 10y agoThe part you missed was: "at any sort of scale." I'm pretty sure you would encounter ever-increasing levels of countermeasures as you tried more and more tricks at scale.
- natch 10y agoBut users will just update to the latest version if a few days, and then the juvenile fun will be over.
- gcr 10y agoMessages on the mac can be automated with applescript. tell application "Messages" send "This is an iMessage" to buddy "foo@bar.com" of (service 1 whose service type is iMessage) send "This is an SMS" to buddy "+1234567890" of service "SMS" end tell
- twblalock 10y agoThere are a number of ways to automate text messages. That's how a lot of commercial text notifications work.