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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by dijit on Saturday December 09, 2023 @05:09AM (#38580464)
> Obviously Mini was using the encryption properly else it wouldn't have worked to begin with.

I tried beeper before (not Mini though, so could be wrong about Mini) but it seemed to be running a VM somewhere and passing messages to the MacOS Messages.app via some kind of scripting interface.

So beeper itself (the full version) was not “speaking” iMessage protocol at all.

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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by djxfade on Saturday December 09, 2023 @05:18AM (#38580519)
The old version indeed worked that way. Mini was implementing a fully reverse engineered protocol.
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