Last week, just before Apple stunned the tech world by announcing that it would allow iPhone to support RCS starting next year, Nothing CEO Carl Pei had announced the Nothing Chats app. Created in partnership with the Sunbird universal messaging platform that was planning to bring iMessage to Android users, the Nothing Chats app would allow Nothing Phone (2) users to use iMessage on their Android powered Nothing (2) phone.<\/p>\n
The Verge reports that Nothing pulled the Nothing Chats beta app from the Google Play Store and is \u201cdelaying the launch until further notice\u201d while seeking to exterminate several bugs. The app would have allowed Nothing Phone (2) users to text with iMessage but only if Sunbird could log into users\u2019 iCloud accounts. The Texts.com team discovered that messages sent using Sunbird\u2019s platform are not encrypted (Sunbird has access to every message sent and received through the app).<\/p>\n
A tweet from Android app developer Dylan Roussel says that Sunbird does this by \u201cabusing @getsentry, which is used to monitor errors. But Sunbird logs messages, pretending they are errors.\u201d <\/p>\n
This contradicts an FAQ directly taken from the Nothing website on 11\/17\/2023 and later. The question in the FAQ asked, \u201cAre my messages secure?\u201d The answer stated, \u201cYes, Nothing Chats is built on Sunbird\u2019s platform and all Chats messages are end-to-end encrypted, meaning neither we nor Sunbird can access the messages you\u2019re sending and receiving.\u201d But that does not match what Texts.com discovered. And if there is no encryption and your texts are compromised, you have sent your Apple ID to a third-party service and could allow attackers to view your photos, videos, contacts, notes, and more.<\/p>\n
None of this will have any impact on Apple\u2019s decision to support RCS which was most likely an attempt by Apple to get ahead of the EU\u2019s Digital Markets Act (DMA) which could have forced Apple to add RCS support to the iPhone in the 27 EU member countries if the EU decided to call iMessage a \u201cgatekeeper.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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