Last week we saw Nothing, the Android phone maker founded by Carl Pei of OnePlus fame, announce that it was bringing iMessage support to its latest phone via a collaboration with Sunbird. At the time Sunbird might have gone under the radar a little bit, but it was already offering an invitation-only service for all Android phones that allowed them to send and receive iMessages.
That all seemed like a very bad idea, not least because the prospect of handing over the keys to your Apple ID felt like the kind of thing that people probably shouldn't be doing. There was little reason to suspect that Nothing was up to no good, and the same likely went for Sunbird — although that was less clear last week — but I did wonder how secure the whole system was.
