Android @lemmy.world Denatured @lemm.ee 1y ago

Sunbird / ‘Nothing Chats’ is Not Secure.

texts.blog Sunbird / ‘Nothing Chats’ is Not Secure.

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.

Android @lemdro.id Denatured @lemm.ee 1y ago

Sunbird / ‘Nothing Chats’ is Not Secure.

texts.blog /2023/11/18/sunbird-security/

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Privacy @lemmy.ml Denatured @lemm.ee 1y ago

Sunbird / ‘Nothing Chats’ is Not Secure.

texts.blog /2023/11/18/sunbird-security/

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Well that was short-lived, but not unexpected
- I knew it wasn't going far when I heard the service was being run by having a farm of mac servers acting as the bridge and that you needed to give over your apple credentials to use it.
  
  Why even do this in the first place, when Matrix Bridges have been a thing for ages now?
  
  (Note: I don't like Matrix Bridges either, they're problematic in their own right)
When your privacy performance is not even good enough for Google, it's time to ask yourself some questions.
- They pulled it. Google didn't.
  
  And I commented without reading the article, my bad. Thanks for the correction :)

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