Unsafe iMessage for Android app Sunbird just will not die

Even though Apple now supports RCS to let Android users join in iMessage conversations, the risky Sunbird app is back to persuade them to route everything through its servers anyway. Don't do it to yourself.


Previously on Sunbird... it was an Android app that let users partake in Apple iMessage conversations without a green bubble, and with myriad security problems. It came and it went, and then Apple added RCS support so that Android users could do exactly this without the privacy issues.

Sunbird tried coming back in 2024 having promised to have fixed its security problems, but it really didn't because it really can't. Your data still went through its servers and the company can say all it likes that it doesn't peek, but this remains a firm you've never heard of and are expected to trust.


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