Tiger Woods wishes he had this service
April 27, 2010 by Steve HannafordPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, New Products
Text messages can last forever. And they can haunt people who toss them off without thinking about what they write.
Think sex scandals, libel or defamation suits, or someone showing your boss how you really feel about him or her.
But now there’s a solution to the problem, at least in the U.K. It’s called “Safe Text, and it’i a free (for now) service that intercepts text messages and turns them into self-erasing messages that recipients can open and read only once. This means that what was meant a private message stays a private message.
The service is being offered by Wired Magazine UK as a publicity stunt. It currently allows you to send only ten such messages a day. To sign up, you send a regular text message to a special number. In return you get access to the service, from which you can send messages for the normal cost of a call, if any. Recipients get the notice that they have only one chance to read the message.
Right now this approach is of limited usefulness, but it does suggest a service that cell phone companies across the world could (profitably) offer.
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Tags: privacy, text messages, Tiger Woods
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April 27th, 2010 at 11:44 am
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April 27th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
well another stupid tigertext app that makes no sense