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Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Probably a privacy policy issue? Its okay to do stuff in plaintext, but the privacy policy must make that clear.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Literally from their FAQ

Are my messages secure? Yes, Nothing Chats is built on Sunbird’s platform and all Chats messages are end-to-end encrypted, meaning neither we nor Sunbird can access the messages you’re sending and receiving.

And regardless, if they removed this line and added privacy policy like “we do not encrypt messages and can read them whenever we like” should kill their entire platform.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

No, read the article. App claimed to be end-to-end encrypted, it was anything but.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but what about the other user who’s texting a sunbird client and thinks everything is E2E encrypted?

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Security and privacy minded people dont use iMessage and not even an iPhone. The ecosystem is so close that you don't know what's going on behind just Apple.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you have anything substantive to say around E2EE encryption on iMessage?

The whole point of E2EE is so that a middle man, including the Apple, cannot read it. Apple has been very publicly opposed to providing encryption backdoors that could be accessed by Apple, law enforcement, etc. Backdoors usually get sniffed out and become widespread security vulnerabilities.

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thats their marketing strategy. Selling you a device no one can spy you except us. ;)

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

That’s not how E2EE works. If they did have a back door, that would eventually get exploited and we’d all learn about it.