Nothing announced that the Nothing Chats application, which brought the iMessage experience to Android phones, has been removed from the Play Store. The company announced that it will be republished after various errors are corrected. According to the feedback of those who first experienced the application, there is a violation of privacy and security.Nothing enthusiastically launched the Nothing Chats app, which offers both RCS and iMessage support to improve the messaging experience between Android and iPhone users, but the company has received a lot of criticism since the announcement.
Messages are not end-to-end encrypted
It was revealed that Nothing Chats does not protect chats with end-to-end encryption, and attachments sent from other users can be easily accessed in plain text. Sunbird is said to use HTTP instead of HTTPS. All outgoing messages are leaked in plaintext to a sentry server. Therefore, it is considered an extremely unsafe practice.
What’s interesting is that Nothing doesn’t address these privacy issues at all. Here is the company’s statement on the subject:
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