Nothing inc. recently showed off a Sunbird-based chat app, called Nothing Chat, has been pulled from the Play Store due to security and privacy concerned raised by testers. The quickly growing tech brand decided to do something audacious recently, when they released a new messenger app called Nothing Chats. The speciality of this messenger was that it was compatible with both Android as well as iMessage. The intention was to create an app that is sort of a bridge between RCS and iMessage, but that in itself brought out a host of privacy concerns.
The app was opened to a beta test recently, and testers were quick to note that this ‘workaround’ messenger app actually had a lot of issues to address internally. Firstly, Sunbird uses HTTP, not HTTPS, which is the modern standard. Also, the Nothing Chats app did not feature end to end encryption, which it claims to have. Attachments sent via the app could be access in plain text, which in itself is reason enough to pull a product from the market.
The developers were quick to pull the app from the Play Store and also issued a public apology and promised to make things right, which looks unlikely as there is still no sweet spot between RCS and iMessage, which is why Apple themselves have given themselves an year to sort things out with the GSMA before they can bring RCS support on their iPhone lineup.
