TLDR InfoSec · MISCELLANEOUS

REVERSE-ENGINEERING FIND MY PEOPLE TO STALK MY EX A FRIEND, CAUSE I CAN

zerotistic.blog21 min read

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

An in-depth guide to how the author decided to reverse-engineer Apple's Find My system to register a Linux device and (consensually) track a friend. The author first started by attempting to use the iCloud web API but quickly discovered that it didn't support Find My. After reversing and fuzzing the flow, the author was able to reproduce the process by: authenticating to Apple's private service, registering the Linux machine as an IDS client, receiving the existing Find My share key, and using it to fetch and decrypt the friend's latest location.