Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage,
I detailed it in a previous comment of mine, but it spoofs an identity request by pretending to be an early M1 MacBook whilst providing fake validation data from an old Intel-era macOS library. Apple servers then believed it was a real MacBook and handed over all encryption keys needed to establish E2EE communication over iMessage.
Hack or not a hack, it most definitely is a weird edge case scenario (the specific combination of new MacBook model with old validation data) which is probably why it all worked to begin with.
I detailed it in a previous comment of mine, but it spoofs an identity request by pretending to be an early M1 MacBook whilst providing fake validation data from an old Intel-era macOS library. Apple servers then believed it was a real MacBook and handed over all encryption keys needed to establish E2EE communication over iMessage.
Hack or not a hack, it most definitely is a weird edge case scenario (the specific combination of new MacBook model with old validation data) which is probably why it all worked to begin with.