Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6GFWZ)
Nothing Chats shown in a promotional image. | Image: Nothing Nothing has pulled the Nothing Chats beta from the Google Play store, saying it is delaying the launch until further notice" while it fixes several bugs." The app promised to let Nothing Phone 2 users text with iMessage, but it required allowing Sunbird, who provides the platform, log into users' iCloud accounts on its own Mac Mini servers, which... isn't great?
The removal came after users widely shared a blog from Texts.com showing that messages sent with Sunbird's system aren't actually end-to-end encrypted - and that it's not hard to compromise it. The app launched in beta yesterday after being announced earlier this week.
Sunbird has access to every message sent and received through the app. They do this by abusing @getsentry,...