The (for me) most interesting thing is: why the fuck has no one managed to reverse engineer AirDrop and AirPlay yet, in a way that's mass market compatible?
Like, there is OpenDrop but that is dead since five years [1], it was a code dump by some researchers, and there are no client implementations to interact with Apple servers for getting keys, or with registering Find My devices...
reasons: 1. most other devices don't provides access to low level wi-fi drivers to actually support AWDL.
2. Airdrop is authenticated using Apple accounts on both sides.
3. legal foo
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The (for me) most interesting thing is: why the fuck has no one managed to reverse engineer AirDrop and AirPlay yet, in a way that's mass market compatible?
Like, there is OpenDrop but that is dead since five years [1], it was a code dump by some researchers, and there are no client implementations to interact with Apple servers for getting keys, or with registering Find My devices...
[1] https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
It might be illegal / legally risky for a big company to RE and implement airdrop.
reasons: 1. most other devices don't provides access to low level wi-fi drivers to actually support AWDL. 2. Airdrop is authenticated using Apple accounts on both sides. 3. legal foo