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<p><strong>Apple recently announced it would add RCS support to its Messages app (see p6), but just before that </strong><strong>happened, phone maker Nothing claimed it had its own solution. </strong>In theory, Nothing Chats would have allowed greater text interoperability between iPhones and Android devices. Unfortunately, Nothing Chats turned out to be a privacy and security nightmare.</p>
<p>In order for it to work, you had to sign over your iCloud login details to Nothing and app developer Sunbird on the promise that they were well protected. That idea was undermined by what Android developer Dylan Roussel discovered when investigating the app.</p>
<p>According to Roussel, Sunbird had access to every single text, image, video, contact card and other media file sent using the service. In fact, anyone could access these files if they wanted. What&rsquo;s more, messages were not end-to-end encrypted, despite Nothing claiming that they were.</p>
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<p>The revelations led to Nothing Chats being pulled from the Google Play Store. Roussel described it as &ldquo;probably the biggest &lsquo;privacy nightmare&rsquo; I&rsquo;ve seen by a phone manufacturer in years.&rdquo; The whole sorry saga suggests that when it comes to things like this, it really does pay to stick with apps and companies that take your privacy seriously.</p>
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