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Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 266 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

“Oh, what’s this unauthorized bullshit on our servers?”

[block]

I’m just surprised that it took this long

[–] wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social 83 points 10 months ago (2 children)

same. there seems to be a lot of people that don't realize some things don't get done, not because they're impossible, but because as soon as they do it a company will put a stop to it.

it's like cracking a Xbox or something. the very next patch will render the method obsolete and nonviable. when i heard this workaround was coming for Android, my immediate reaction was how long it would last before Apple just changed something so that it doesn't work.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My bum has a crack, can they fix that?

[–] LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Their hope was that they got close enough to an actual Apple device that breaking it would break Apple devices. It turns out they weren't close enough, but they could be with a few improvements.

[–] Toes@ani.social 27 points 10 months ago

Probably had to be extra careful to test. MDM software software might get glitched out.

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm really curious about how it was detected, how it was different from Apple devices. If nothing else I'm looking forward to reading about how that all worked.

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

It is usually easy to detect a specific client. Like even if you ignore the keys there are dozens of little details like the TLS fingerprint of whatever library they use not matching iOS. Things that are easy to miss and sometimes hard to bypass. Then there are heuristics on how it is used is likely unique.

[–] LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

From what I understand, their guess is that Apple is now checking if the device also has support for other services, such as FaceTime. Beeper Mini and pypush don't pretend to support FaceTime, so it breaks.