All signs point to Sunbird being actual malware at this point- and, I mean, their motivations were a coin toss from the beginning. I can’t imagine hitching your company’s reputation (not to mention customer security) to something so blatantly sketchy. Not surprised at all by this news.

Shady company abuses analytics SDK to log user messages?

shocked pikachu face

Just write in paper Jesus

Nothing’s wrong here.

At this point it was either Apple announcing RCS support that made this redundant or a sternly worded cease and desist from Apple’s army of lawyers that ended it.

LOL

”Just one more (no)thing…”

Already? But it's nice that they acted quick and pulled the plug on a bad product. Letting it drag would have made the situation worse.

lol That lasted all of a week!

Most teenagers here in California use Snapchat..

I mean…No shit. How did they not notice ahead of time?

Much ado about Nothing…

I am shocked! SHOCKED!! … well, not that shocked.

They tried at least, it was a gamble but it’s nice to see tech companies try something out

Woah, who wouldve expected that

The company is called Nothing, what you see is what you get.

That was literally…. Nothing.

Nothing should change their name. Seriously dumb

To surprise of no one, but at least Carl didn’t kill it before Apple announced the big iMassage changes. I know Apple would‘ve anyway, but who-knows-when. So maybe it wasn’t all for nothing^(TM)

rare nothing L

That was so obvious. Why the hell would they think apple would let that fly. Literally have to log in to your apple account on a Mac mini stored in a random location. Yah no privacy issue at all. Big L from Nothing

This was obvious from the start

I don't get this nothing company.. the only thing different is the flashing lights. Everything else about it is nothing special!? Farephone! That's the way to go!

wow! such a surprise! /s

No shit. What a simple thing to figure out and yet, the dude was like, let’s just penetrate the US market by siphoning user data. It’s like they haven’t heard of any hacking this year.

And some people are paid 6 digits to figure this out

Crazy how in trying to bring some Apple over, they did the most un-Apple thing possible!

PLAIN TEXT? HOW DOES THIS EVEN HAPPEN. HOW DOES THIS COULD GO THROUGH ALL THE DIFFERENT TEAMS AND CHECKS LIKE DAMN DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE SET UP?

I really don't use imessage etc stuff so I missed it. Was this an app requiring an account/SSO? If that is the case, all those SSO admins have to revoke its access immediately.

Also their servers, cloud space whatever should be confiscated, legally imaged and securely deleted.

This issue in hand can't be remedied by removal from app store. It should be flagged as a PUA.

What happened to EU, FCC etc?

When a hail mary attempt backfires terribly 😂

Nothing's FAQ said it was encrypted. So did Sunbird just lie about it and Nothing believed them without actually checking or were they in on it? Either way that's a bad sign, and while it's good that they pulled it this shouldn't have happened to begin with (also if people can just lie about encryption that says a lot doesn't it).

I guess it did what it was intended to do: create a media cycle towards them.