Feels more likely it’s because apple committed to RCS in 2024 less than 2 weeks after “iMessage bridge” was announced via YouTube
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Ridiculous. Nothing really fucked their image with this. I don‘t get why they even shipped it with these obvious issues.
Nothing Chats iMessage bridge was astoundingly insecure
Nothing and Sunbird pulled the shockingly insecure iMessage bridge, but only after it was discovered that not only did Sunbird log and retain messages, vCards, and more, but that retained user data could also be downloaded by others.
appleinsider.com
But why would they shut it down now because of technical reasons? Wouldn‘t they blame it on the RCS announcement?
Very good point actually 😅. After reading the article stringently it seemed like this was going to morph into some sort privacy/security scandal if they didn’t act fast