[HN Gopher] Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Pl...
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       Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy
       issues
        
       Author : sadeshmukh
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-11-18 20:51 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com)
        
       | olliej wrote:
       | Yeah, so they didn't reverse engineer anything, they literally
       | take your password and then have you approve them registering a
       | Mac mini they control as a trusted device in iCloud.
       | 
       | At that point they have access to your entire iCloud account:
       | messages (obviously), docs, browser history, browser tabs,
       | iTunes/App Store account if you're using a single account, etc.
       | Oh yeah, and that Mac mini is now a trusted device, so it can
       | approve adding new devices to your account if they're compromised
       | (or malicious, but lets give them the benefit of the doubt).
       | 
       | Now based on the problems presented in this article I don't think
       | I would trust their data management or security practices at all,
       | they clearly don't give a damn about customer privacy (beyond
       | their already overt removal of message privacy/e2ee).
        
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