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Re:Beeper is giving up on its iMessage dream by GeekyBear on Thursday December 21, 2023 @02:30PM (#38725525)
However, there is every chance that circumventing a service's security controls is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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Re:Beeper is giving up on its iMessage dream by rootusrootus on Thursday December 21, 2023 @09:11PM (#38730099)
That's something I've been wondering about myself. People have run afoul of the CFAA with less egregious actions than these. I guess the Beeper guys talked to their lawyer at least, before taking this course of action.
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Re:Beeper is giving up on its iMessage dream by smashah on Friday December 22, 2023 @03:07AM (#38732053)
This type of project is protected from CFAA by Van Buren. AFAIK the only untested precedent is ToS violation.
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