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Apple iPhones now offer satellite communication for emergency services and messaging. This feature operates when traditional wireless networks are unavailable, but faces bandwidth and delay limitations inherent to satellite technology. To manage these constraints, Apple developed a proprietary satellite communication protocol. Researchers have successfully reverse-engineered this protocol for the first time, analyzing its security and privacy. They also created a testbed to evaluate emergency services without triggering actual calls. Their analysis uncovered protocol and infrastructure flaws, including a lack of integrity protection in compact messages and an internet-dependent setup. The researchers demonstrated bypasses, like sending arbitrary text messages using location sharing on older iOS versions. They also showed how to send iMessages from restricted regions via satellite. These bypasses can help circumvent censorship and operator control over text messaging.

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