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Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS
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this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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Sunbird is closed source so you just have to take their word for it when they say they don't store messages or credentials. How the fuck could you know if they're lying or not? You can't because it's closed source.
As much as I have issues with the similar Beeper, at least Beeper is open sourcing their bridges.
Just read through their faq
That's a nope from me.
That statement is pretty stupid in general. But for server side software, open source doesn't help much. Even if you can look at the source, you still need to trust them that that's what they are running on their servers.
Open source is important for services with end-to-end encryption, because you can make sure the client actually encrypts the outgoing data, is not sending your private key somewhere, and won't break that security at some point in the future.
Of course this particular service cannot even have end to end encryption in the first place.