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Doesn't iMessage require some sort of Apple-issued device id? A key, unique to a device, hard-coded in the SoC? (which is easy to block if over-used).
Which is why hackintoshes used to require crazy workarounds to get this working, even with Apple's own software, if I remember correctly (never tried myself, could be wrong).
How did they get around this? (did they?)
It does, the article actually mentions that. Yes, they did get around or reverse-engineer it. The article does not describe how, though I imagine it's doing the same sort of workaround that Hackintoshes have to do. Honestly, it's quite a feat.
Check out my reply
I posted some links that get into the details of how the tech works
This blog post does a fairly good job outlining the tech
You can also take a look at the pypush proof-of-concept code that this is based on
Thanks, the second link talks about this in the
"data.plist" and Mac serial numbers
section.