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Texts.blog, the blog of Texts.com
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Texts.blog, the blog of Texts.com is the company blog at texts.blog, writing about security and programming. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Sunbird / 'Nothing Chats' Is Not Secure”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Texts.com's November 2023 post showing that Sunbird's iMessage-for-Android system did not use end-to-end encryption and was easy to compromise, which led to Nothing Chats being pulled.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Texts.blog, the blog of Texts.com
Most-linked posts?
- Sunbird / 'Nothing Chats' Is Not Secure6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-11-18
What Hacker News says?
If this really works, it is what Nothing's partnership with Sunbird claimed to do (and lied about) a couple weeks ago - before being called out and shut down https://texts.blog/2023/11/18/sunbird-security/
Comment linking /2023/11/18/sunbird-security/
on “Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android”Submitted Cracking Meta's Messenger Certificate Pinning on macOS as a story · 490 points
HN discussionGood write up: https://texts.blog/2023/11/18/sunbird-security/
Comment linking /2023/11/18/sunbird-security/
on “Nothing Chats, an iMessage app for Android, is a privacy nightmare”Submitted Sunbird / 'Nothing Chats' Is Not Secure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOriginal discovery from texts.com (linked in article) https://texts.blog/2023/11/18/sunbird-security/
Comment linking /2023/11/18/sunbird-security/
on “Nothing's iMessage app was a security catastrophe, taken down in 24 hours”Submitted Sunbird / 'Nothing Chats' Is Not Secure as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> The removal came after users widely shared a blog from Texts.com showing that messages sent with Sunbird’s system aren’t actually end-to-end encrypted — and that it’s not hard to compromise it https://texts.blog/2023/11/18/sunbird-security/
Comment linking /2023/11/18/sunbird-security/
on “Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues”Submitted Sunbird / 'Nothing Chats' Is Not Secure as a story · 1 points
HN discussion