Tracking on non-Macs
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- macos, swift
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by investigating authentication for the Find My web app or local Find My API, using the suggested MITM approach to observe requests; done means tracking works on non-Mac computers without requiring a hosted macOS server.
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Description
Problem
The problem: it's limiting to not be able to track things on non-Mac computers.
Solution
Reverse-engineer either the local Find My API or the Find My web app and allow for tracking on non-Macs
Alternatives
- Host a macOS server to track stuff. If not self hosted it allows whoever hosts it to access private information. I believe this was discussed earlier
- Upload the keys to Apple somehow and use the web Find My App to do this. May require temporarily disabling SIP, or possibly it's possible to use the Mail-app entitlement route to upload it.
Additional context
I understand that this is an long term goal and that either way it's easier said then done. It may be worthwhile to try seeing how auth is done for the Find My web app and then MITM'ing the connection to see how it requests the location.
- Dominant language
- Swift
- Stars
- 13.6k
- Forks
- 681
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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