Last week Nothing announced a brand new chat app, Nothing Chats, which effectively brings a version of Apple’s iMessage to Android. That way you’re not sending messages and files by the old, insecure SMS and MMS systems. Unfortunately, Nothing has now pulled the app from Google Play, and it’s apparently all due to serious security concerns.
Nothing Chats works, and the process requires you to let Sunbird log into your iCloud account from its servers — allegedly powered by a Mac Mini. Which is sketchy enough already, but it gets worse than that. According to a report from Texts.com, it turns out Songbird messages aren’t end-to-end encrypted. Apparently, it’s not that difficult to compromise the system either.
