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Presumably anyone exploiting this would end up sending such messages to many iphones as well, where they could not delete themselves. If there are no suspicious
by zipfle 11y ago
Presumably anyone exploiting this would end up sending such messages to many iphones as well, where they could not delete themselves. If there are no suspicious messages arriving on iphones, that suggests it may not be being widely exploited.
- itake 11y agomaybe, they could check to see if a phone number supports imessage which would reduce the number of iphone users. they may also blast texts out to android only phone numbers (maybe if you gave your phone number to an android app)
- mortenjorck 11y agoThat leads to an interesting security question: How is Apple's iMessage lookup service protected?
- hrrsn 11y agohttps://imfreedom.org/wiki/IMessage#Looking_up_contacts https://imfreedom.org/wiki/IMessage#Looking_up_contacts
- pd1 11y ago> maybe, they could check to see if a phone number supports imessage Is that possible? I haven't touched iOS in a long time.
- function_seven 11y agoIt's possible through the UI. I'm sure it could be automated, though I don't know how. When you send a text message from one iOS device to another, it will be blue if it was sent via iMessage, green otherwise. Again, not sure how this could be automated en masse, but I'm sure it's possible.
- stavrianos 11y agoAt the very least, there'd be a wave of unsolicited messages on android phones that don't auto-download attachments.