Nothing Chats iMessage bridge was astoundingly insecure
appleinsider.com
Nothing and Sunbird pulled the shockingly insecure iMessage bridge, but only after it was discovered that not only did Sunbird log and retain messages, vCards, and more, but that retained user data could also be downloaded by others.
  • DvnEm@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sorry, so the privacy concerns turned out to be WORSE than YouTubers had mentioned.

    Jfc wow.

  • Will0w536@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Jeez, what a week of headlines. I swear it started as Nothing will unveil iMessage for Android. Then shifted to Apple with adopt RCS. The Nothings BlueMessage getting taken down from the play store…to today it is getting killed entirely. This has got to be the shortest lifespan of a product for Android from initial public announcement to death blow.

  • DigitalStefan@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Of course it did. Some random 3rd-party proxying plaintext copies of all users messages was never going to result in success.

    I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Apple’s 180 on adopting RCS is because they realised people will risk stupid things in an effort to interop with iMessage, which tarnishes the brand.

  • pk-pk-pk@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I just don’t get the fascination from android users wanting iMessage. Use whatsapp or signal etc to get through to your apple friends or sms failing that. If you really want that blue bubble just save up for an iPhone.

  • philliphatchii@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This was always a bad idea for any user to actually use. Always sounded like it was prone to be opening up your wallet so a third party could look inside to see what you have.

  • TSS997@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This has to be have been a marketing exercise. No lawyers on payroll looked into this? Seems pretty unbelievable when user privacy has pretty consistently been in the news.