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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by miki123211 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @04:34PM (#43404724)
Because with iMessage, it's not about your own security, it's about the security of everybody that you're allowed to message from a given device.

I suspect Apple can significantly cut down on abuse prevention measures just by making it harder to automatically send iMessage spam.

If any random Bluetooth smartwatch was allowed to send those, there's no telling how that capability could be abused, we all know how IoT vendors are with device security.

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by mistercheph on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @04:53PM (#43404954)
> we all know how IoT vendors are with device security.

Couldn't agree more: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/SearchResults?query=apple+watc...

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by cyberax on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:56PM (#43406185)
> Because with iMessage, it's not about your own security, it's about the security of everybody that you're allowed to message from a given device.

You do realize that you're implying that Apple is insecure by design? Because I can easily (locally) root my iPhone and get raw access to iMessage.

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