I've asked this 3 times across the various threads on this, and have yet to get a 100% confirmed "you are right" answer because I don't know the specifics and I haven't come into anybody who has taken the time to research the answer:
When you log in to iMessage and the various underlying protocols/services, you do it with an Apple ID. Is that Apple ID tied in a one-to-many (but you need at least one) fashion of registered, active, non-flaged-stolen, checked-for-legitimacy hardware IDs/serial #s?
If it isn't, why doesn't Apple do this? Don't they have a database of every device they've sold?
Why would their APIs that handle auth accept something that looks a real serial # instead of an actually real validated serial #? Why don't they check "is this device sitting on a shelf un-sold or does it belong to this account, activated"?
When you log in to iMessage and the various underlying protocols/services, you do it with an Apple ID. Is that Apple ID tied in a one-to-many (but you need at least one) fashion of registered, active, non-flaged-stolen, checked-for-legitimacy hardware IDs/serial #s?
If it isn't, why doesn't Apple do this? Don't they have a database of every device they've sold?
Why would their APIs that handle auth accept something that looks a real serial # instead of an actually real validated serial #? Why don't they check "is this device sitting on a shelf un-sold or does it belong to this account, activated"?