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- Concerns about security arose shortly after Nothing Chats was announced.
- Nothing clarified how Nothing Chats works to reassure users that it is safe to use.
- New findings show that the app may be less secure than previously thought.
When Nothing announced Nothing Chats, the company claimed its new Phone 2 messaging platform was end-to-end encrypted. Although Nothing insists that its app is private and secure, new findings suggest it is less secure than we initially thought.
Nothing Chats is built on the Sunbird app’s architecture but is designed by Nothing. It is meant to give the Phone 2 compatibility with the iPhone’s iMessage app. To do this, users are required to sign into the app with an Apple ID, which then assigns your account to a virtual instance of one of Sunbird’s Mac Minis. This tricks an iPhone into thinking it is communicating with another Apple device (we tested the Nothing Chat service for ourselves).