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…

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/15388100

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.

  • MarsRT@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    pretty sure sunbird claimed they were able to get thousands of apple IDs to be able to work on one mac, which is something matrix bridge based iMessage solutions like Beeper don’t do

    whether they’re actually being truthful about that, i would personally doubt it

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      which is something matrix bridge based iMessage solutions like Beeper don’t do

      Which is precisely what makes Matrix the better option for this, albeit still not great

      • MarsRT@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        7 months ago

        for a mass market solution though, that’s not scalable at all, even if you try to get the cheapest, used macs possible so I can see why sunbird would claim to do this