Following several reports surrounding its lack of security, Nothing Chats is gone from the Play Store
  • Nothing Chats, a rival to apps like Beeper and AirMessage, advertised itself as a secure platform for sending messages to iMessage users.
  • However, less than 24 hours after its launch, investigations into the app revealed that Nothing Chats logged every message in plain text and stored unencrypted data, including text messages, images, videos, and more, making it a significant privacy and security risk.
  • The company removed the app from the Play Store following these complaints, citing “several bugs” that need fixing.
  • generalpotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Really? Nobody did an arch review for this and figured this was going to be caught/uncovered/talked about day one?

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      1 year ago

      I imagine Nothing’s Infosec team must be terrible or non-existent. Any half decent infosec team would immediately raise red flags and pull in the legal dept as soon as they heard “let’s let our customers give their iCloud credentials to a small vendor we just hired.”

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        Any half decent infosec team would immediately

        … be over-ridden by a Chief Product Officer who says ‘[something something] for now’ .