Are your text messages private?
- added February 7, 2008
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- Scott_Bromley
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Just like email, communicating via text message can feel like a one-on-one exchange—but that privacy is an illusion. Yahoo Tech's Gina Hughes runs down a few ways you can protect your privacy with SMS, like passwording your phone, using anonymous SMS services like AnonTxt.com, and completely destroying your cell phone's data before your sell your phone. All of these suggestions don't actually make SMS secure, because the transmission itself is not, and the copy of your message, in the end, is stored on someone else's phone and there's no way to control what happens from there. In short, the best way to protect yourself is to not text sensitive info, like passwords, PINs, or, um, flirtations you wouldn't mind others knowing about.
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- Scott_Bromley
- 7 months ago
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Good advice Mr Bromley. I've always wondered why anyone would send any sensitive information via text. These little bits of data don't just shoot like a laser from your phone to the receiver's phone. They're stored somewhere, on some company's server, just waiting to be hacked by a program like Mobile Spy. If you're doing something dodgy, better to leave no trace, right? Otherwise you're just asking for it. -
have you seen , dr. drew's celebrity rehab.
were the baldwin dude is texting mary cary dirty text's,
dirty,dirty man.
but still.
i would not do the same. -
They know where you are..why would any other information be any less private...you have to know your technology,big brother isn't some loose concept!
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