[garysahota93]

What if they create a version of Beeper Mini that spoofs an apple device you own? For example: I don't want to own an iPhone, but I do have a MacBook. So rather than use a randomly generated device that tricks Apple's servers to allow me to connect, I can just use a device a legitimately own (and just trick apple to think my phone is my laptop).

I know this won't work for everyone (especially folks that don't have an Apple device). But this might be better than losing the app all together ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(PS - I don't know much about how Beeper Mini's reverse engineering worked. Just going off what I believe I understood)

[eiiot]

This already exists!

https://airmessage.org

[_fzslm]

not quite what the parent comment was referring to - AirMessage is cool but needs a server Mac to run 24/7.

parent is asking if it’s possible to spoof the secure identifiers from the Mac in Beeper - extracting the secure IDs, inputting them into Beeper - at which point Beeper can communicate directly with Apple as if it is that Mac.

a clever workaround!

[garysahota93]

Precisely! Would be a cool workaround & I would be completely happy with this approach (vs losing access all together).

But I wonder if that’d even be possible. I hope someone from the Beeper team sees this!

[jaktet]

I was using this before beeper and switched to beeper since I could also use WhatsApp on my iPad. Worked just fine on an old otherwise unused MacBook Air I keep in my garage. I only used airmessage for iMessage on windows