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Re:PieMessage: iMessage on Android by Gaelan on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:51AM (#11626271)
Just out of curiosity, why has nobody reverse-engineered iMessage to create an open-source client? I presume it is quite hard (the seems like an obvious thing to attempt, iMessage has been available on the Mac where things like disassembly should be pretty easy for years); where does this challenge come from?
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Re:PieMessage: iMessage on Android by zachlatta on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:57AM (#11626290)
IIRC, Apple issues unique keys to every iOS/OS X device they produce. This key is used to subscribe to APNS (which iMessage uses for data transfer).

Without the key, you can't do much of anything.

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Re:PieMessage: iMessage on Android by rahimnathwani on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:37AM (#11626446)
It appears you can generate a key, and that Apple doesn't check whether the key corresponds to a piece of hardware they've sold:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/2wohwn/getting_...

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