PieMessage: iMessage on Android

Re:PieMessage: iMessage on Android by Analemma_ on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @08:22PM (#11625306)

You should probably brace yourself for a C&D and/or DMCA takedown request from Apple, regardless of the actual legality of what you're doing. They won't like this.

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Re:PieMessage: iMessage on Android by conradev on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @08:50PM (#11625413)

I went through Apple's DMCA requests sent to Github and the only one that is remotely similar is this:

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-11-04-Apple....

But even then they weren't claiming it was reverse engineered material, but instead material ripped directly from Apple's copyrighted and confidential docs. I think both Apple and Github understand the boundaries of the DMCA pretty well. According to Github they haven't attempted to take down any of the following:

https://github.com/nygard/class-dump

https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers

https://github.com/brutella/hc

https://github.com/KhaosT/HAP-NodeJS

https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge

https://github.com/lisimia/piMessage

https://github.com/stefanesser/dumpdecrypted

https://github.com/comex/imaon2

… etc

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Re:PieMessage: iMessage on Android by toxik on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:08AM (#11626713)

It is relieving to see that this information is available to the general public. Chilling effects and whatnot.

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Re:PieMessage: iMessage on Android by mdorazio on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @08:26PM (#11625322)

Yes, I remember having seen something very similar before several years ago that was promptly forced to shut down by Apple. I believe this was it:

http://techland.time.com/2013/09/24/an-imessage-app-is-now-a...

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Re:PieMessage: iMessage on Android by landr0id on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @09:33PM (#11625559)

piemessage proxies through your own Mac though -- not some sketchy server in China. I'd imagine Apple shut down the one you linked to protect their users.

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Re:PieMessage: iMessage on Android by matthewmacleod on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:14AM (#11627326)

that was promptly forced to shut down by Apple

I think we'd need a citation for that – AFAIK that app was pulled because of honking great security problems.

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Re:PieMessage: iMessage on Android by Angostura on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @07:44AM (#11627638)

Unless it starts cocking up Apple's own systems - overloading servers, or generating significant numbers of support queries, for example I doubt they will have any problem at all

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