Gun_Put Responsibility is certainly a two way street here. Sunbird had many faults, Nothing slapped their brand on it, (and to be clear the developer was named “Nothing Partnerships”, VS “NOTHING TECHNOLOGY LIMITED”*, indicating much of the work here was not completed by Nothing themselves rather through the partnership), and Nothing has to speak transparently to what occurred, what went wrong, and how Nothing will address this going forward. However, I still believe a lot of what Sunbird sold Nothing was smoke and mirrors. Embellishing the iMessage capabilities and level of encryption being utilized. If we take the Nothing Chats app here out of the equation, which is really just a UI overlay onto Sunbirds app itself, the Sunbird team has a lot more to address. Their website is incredibly misleading. As soon as you navigate to their home page you’re hit with many references to “Secure & Private End-to-End Encryption. Secure, confidential messaging” indicating that their platform is truly secure. Yet that couldn’t be further from the truth. You can shoot holes in the Sunbird privacy/security page all day long after digging into their platform and seeing how it really works/doesn’t work following the chats release. As I stated before, should Nothing have vetted this app in greater detail, absolutely. However, in these partnerships, many times the partner isn’t fully transparent about their terms, their services, etc.. I wouldn’t be surprised if Nothing has legal grounds here to file lawsuits against Sunbird unless their terms were loosely outlined which would point more fault to Nothing. Nothing has to be transparent to the community and yes, Nothing has to take ownership of what occurred. However, Sunbird itself was the primary issue here and Sunbird has a lot to own up to.
