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[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 85 points 1 year ago (6 children)

They use a Mac mini somewhere to route these messages. So you're logging into that Mac mini with your iCloud credentials. Sounds like a privacy/security nightmare and creepy as fuck.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] teatowel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iMessage only runs on Apple products

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

...or a virtualized Apple product on a Linux machine. iMessage doesn't know the difference.

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