Nothing Chats, an iMessage app for Android, is a privacy nightmare
Nothing Chats, an iMessage app for Android, is a privacy nightmare
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Nothing Chats, the Sunbird-based iMessage app, is a privacy nightmare with unencrypted messages and images
It's bizarre that Sunbird touted their solution as end-to-end encrypted, when it can't be - iMessage drops to plaintext on the Mac farm.
While it's a good solution, it is entirely untrue. A message is either End to End Encrypted or it is not. If the message is decrypted at any point between the sender and the intended recipient, it is definitively not End to End Encrypted.
E2EE means it's End-to-End Encrypted. If it's decrypted at any point during transit then it's by definition not E2EE and Beeper shouldn't be making that claim.
Then it's not E2E encrypted.
One end is your device, the other end is the other device. It's only E2E encrypted if it is not decrypted until it reaches the other device.
How does one host their own beeper server?
Edit: found it
As someone who works in the tech industry, this is not surprising to me at all. Typically the people who communicate with the media and customers don't know a single thing about tech. They don't know what end to end encryption means. They know just know encryption is involved and they have heard the buzzword, so they repeat it.