jaymonkey
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Hi Jay - good to see you! - I did make the mistake once of switching SmBIOS without changing the S/N and iMessage/F-Time was still functional. Just think about it, some individuals in desperation to get iMsg/F-Time to work, are using values completely different from their setup and seems to be ok.
@esafeddie and all who responded to my query ...
It would seem that there are more 'yes' you can change SMBIOS without updating S/N than No ...
Very interesting ...
I'm wondering if its a case that the S/N is only checked for compliance when you register/create iCloud account ?
After which only mlb & rom are checked against the IM authentication watchdog packets .... as already known.
Will do some experiments ...
Cheers
Jay