Outlining security risks in ‘Nothing Chats,’ an iMessage app for Android made in partnership with ‘Sunbird’. Observe the poor security practices that made it into the production release. ‘Nothing C…

Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues / Nothing pulled the Nothing Chats beta from the Google Play store “until further notice” after reports that Sunbird sends messages in plain text.

  • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]English
    7·
    1 year ago

    I think Apple intended it to allow people to understand when a message was secure or not

    I don’t even think it’s security; It meant the messages are free. A large part of the early marketing for iMessage was that it bypasses the sms network entirely and that you could text as much as you want even if you didn’t have unlimited texting on your plan, as long as you were talking in blue bubbles.

    • emptyfish@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s interesting, as a late comer to the Apple ecosystem I will admit I was just speculating. Thanks for sharing that!