Android earpiece maker Nothing made waves last week when it announce that its Nothing Chats app would allow Android exploiter to become “ blasphemous bubbles , ” logging into an Apple ID and post iMessages between iPhones . The app was powered by Sundbird Messaging , an app , and table service that has been in a closed waitlist beta for almost a class .
Immediately upon launching the Nothing chat beta , investigator and journalists break that it failed just about every security measures hope Sunbird makes . Messages in plain text , medium stored on Google Firebase servers , accessible vcards with liaison info , you name it . Nothing chat was extract from the Play Store within a solar day . And now Sunbird , the app / service upon which it was built , has halt mental process .
accord to 9to5Google , Sunbird users are now greeted with a apprisal that the app is being temporarily shut down :
heartfelt Sunbird User . We have decide to pause Sunbird usage for now while we investigate security business . We will update you when we are ready to continue .
Will Sunbird ( and therefore Nothing Chats ) ever start back up again ? That remains to be seen . Most of the iMessage lineament it enables will be enabled next year whenApple finally brings RCS to iPhones . The security lapses find in Sunbird were severe enough that the caller for certain ca n’t just little finger - swear they ’ve fixed everything — you would await them to publish an autonomous third - political party surety audited account before resume operations . And the fact that the serve never became broadly available since it was announced last December is fairly knotty .
The time and expense necessary to truly alleviate Sunbird ’s security problems in a way that will satisfy the public may no longer seem worthwhile with RCS on the sensible horizon for the iPhone . Yes , the bubbles will still be green , but you ’ll at least get read revenue , full - res medium , typing index , and more . It is undecipherable what the future holds for the Sunbird military service or Nothing chat , but this serves as a practiced monitor to be very conservative with any app or service that promises to enable iMessage on Android .
