radiowatch
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Q: MESSAGES

Without changing any settings on my MacBook Pro, suddenly yesterday when sending a text “message” it is being delivered in Chinese. I have checked the system preference and NOTHING is set to anything but American English.  I am rnning

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), running SSD

Posted on Oct 15, 2016 9:31 AM

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Q: MESSAGES

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  • by Ralph Johns (UK),

    Ralph Johns (UK) Ralph Johns (UK) Oct 15, 2016 12:02 PM in response to radiowatch
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    Oct 15, 2016 12:02 PM in response to radiowatch

    Hi,

     

    The numbers for this are slowly increasing My iMessage has been hacked

    There are 154 replies in that Thread.

     

    In the total number is Apple Devices that use an Apple ID in iMessages out there this is still a small number.

    In that thread I have raised the issue with the Hosts.

     

    Change your Apple ID Password for the one used with iMessages (that might also be you ID in other apps and iCloud)

    Check the Apple ID site to see if the device is listed (in the other thread this does not seem to happen).

     

    In the other Thread people who have not been doing so have started to use 2 Step verification (needs an Messages app Specific Password).

     

     

     

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    8:02 pm      Saturday; October 15, 2016

     

    ​  iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Sierra)
     G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
     MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
     Mac OS X (10.6.8),
     iPhone 6 iOS 10.x and an iPad (2)

  • by chow11,

    chow11 chow11 Oct 18, 2016 2:27 PM in response to Ralph Johns (UK)
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    Oct 18, 2016 2:27 PM in response to Ralph Johns (UK)

    The base note writer's issue is not the same as the hack you linked to.

     

    The problem is that sometimes, when sending a text from iMessage (OS X 10.12) to an android phone user, the text appears to being padded from UTF-8 to UTF-16, padded with a 0x40 which gets rendered by the android client, I assume correctly, as a Chinese character set.  If one takes the received message, and strips the extra unicode byte off and displays the result as UTF-8, the original message is revealed.

     

    In my case, I have a message that was typed using the Mac iMessage client that is being received "in Chinese", but typing the exact same message on my iPhone, the text is received fine.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Oct 18, 2016 2:52 PM in response to chow11
    Level 9 (79,538 points)
    Oct 18, 2016 2:52 PM in response to chow11

    chow11 wrote:

     

     

    The problem is that sometimes, when sending a text from iMessage (OS X 10.12) to an android phone user, the text appears to being padded from UTF-8 to UTF-16, padded with a 0x40

     

     

    What's really puzzling is how this could suddenly be happening, and whether it is a problem with Message, the carriers, or Android....