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That doesn't seem hard, people like your father can be allow-listed, he's not signing-up out of the blue. (I'm wondering if this "works" because the early adopt
by flomo 3y ago
That doesn't seem hard, people like your father can be allow-listed, he's not signing-up out of the blue. (I'm wondering if this "works" because the early adopters were hackintosh types who were already on imessage and not abusers. When the H3rb8l V18gr8 crowd shows up, that is the end.)
- usui 3y agoThe what crowd?
- messe 3y agoSpam.
- HenryBemis 3y agoNow then.. if I am a professional spammer (which I am not), what stops me from buying a second hand mac or a second hand iphone (for $150 each) and start 'doing business' with iMessage? Unless it's an issue of 'iPhones can't be JB-ed like Androids can be rooted to run all shorts of malware/spamming softwares'. I get Apple's "this is our toy, you won't be making $2/month/user on us". But "keeping the spammers out" it's a bit.. weird..? Can someone please describe the WHAT is the technical advantage of Android users to spam over iPhone/Mac users to spam.
- pjerem 3y agoThe whitelist would be on the phone number/icloud id and not tied to the device. That’d be pretty difficult to get second hand, especially when you can just spam over SMS. They could even release a new iMessage protocol with another bubble color and let the blue ones become uncool.
- realusername 3y ago> what stops me from buying a second hand mac or a second hand iphone (for $150 each) and start 'doing business' with iMessage? Nothing, that's why iMessage is full of spam already. What scammers do is buying boxes of old half broken iphones and they turn them into relays exactly as you said.
- Grustaf 3y agoI have never received a single spam message through iMessage, but regardless. If they have to keep buying new phones all the time as they get blacklisted, in order to keep spamming, the economics of spamming changes.
- realusername 3y agoThat does raise the bar a little bit but it's probably mitigated by the combination of targeting higher spending users and the additional trust iMessage provides.
- Grustaf 3y agoThe difference between being able to send unlimited messages for free, and having to get a new phone every hundred or so texts is pretty large. Free vs 1 dollar per spam text.
- SSLy 3y agoI did recieve some spam messages there, so Apple's claims about muh security etc. already is bogus
- rezonant 3y ago> Unless it's an issue of 'iPhones can't be JB-ed like Androids can be rooted to run all shorts of malware/spamming softwares'. We're also talking about old, non-updated iOS versions here, jailbreaks are more likely to last when they target these versions.