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This is totally different. Beeper is trying to use an api to send message to users. They are not getting nor trying to get shell access to apple servers.

• GeekyBear 3y ago
  No, Beeper is using Apple's servers without authorization, in the same way that Swartz was accessing web servers without authorizaton.
  • prmoustache 3y ago
    Not really in the same way. And you forget that what is the most important in a prosecution is the intent. Beeper intent is to serve both Apple customers and non Apple customers to exchange messages securely. Its goal is interoperability, not stealing, or blindly using resources it doesn't own.
    • GeekyBear 3y ago
      > you forget that what is the most important in a prosecution is the intent The intent is to sell hacked access to somebody else's servers. If I sell hacked access to Microsoft's Office 365 servers, I can claim to have any motivations I like. It's still a crime.