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How come nobody has reverse engineered the iMessage protocol properly? Is Apple using any hardware stuff to prevent this? I think an unofficial iMessage client
by ttsda 8y ago
How come nobody has reverse engineered the iMessage protocol properly? Is Apple using any hardware stuff to prevent this? I think an unofficial iMessage client appeared a few years ago, but it was very closed source and I don't think it worked for very long
- jsjohnst 8y ago> How come nobody has reverse engineered the iMessage protocol properly? People have, but changes have been made where the barrier to entry on the crypto/client verification side is sufficiently high a barrier to make it not practical. See next answer for more context. > Is Apple using any hardware stuff to prevent this? Yes. > I think an unofficial iMessage client appeared a few years ago, but it was very closed source and I don't think it worked for very long The iMessage team scrambled on its release to block it as it leveraged a severe security breach.
- ttsda 8y agoThanks for the insight.