• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Lots of sarcastic comments in here, but Beeper’s method was to literally spoof the serial numbers and whatnot of real machines. Do people really not see how that would be a problem?

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      10 months ago

      Do people like relying on service that requires their real device’s serial number to function?

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        10 months ago

        You can use any apple device to use iMessage, your account isn’t only usable on your device. They were effectively stealing people’s machine IDs to provide this service. That’s fucked up.

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          10 months ago

          “Effectively stealing” means the original machine ID can’t be used by the original machine after it’s stolen, right?