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encrypted sms
secure peer text messaging
 
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friends agree on passwords.

persons in the phone's directory memory have an optional password. sms to and from that person encode/decode automatically and transparently with that password otherwise normal plaintext is used.


barkinghugh, Jul 30 2003

Verizon Wireless SMS snooping bug http://www.threezee...icle&artid=6&page=1
[krelnik, Oct 04 2004]

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       I have trouble reading SMS messages anyway.

angel, Jul 30 2003
  

       it's not secure enough for you aleady ?

neilp, Jul 30 2003
  

       Actually, a security research firm just the other day discovered that it is possible to "snoop" on SMS messages sent by customers of Verizon in the US, by exploiting a flaw in their web site. See link.

krelnik, Jul 30 2003
  

       u alrdy hv th fcking fon, wy dnt u jst cal thm?

fogfreak, Jul 30 2003
  

       Sorry, I know I'm bitchy today. Maybe I've just seen that commercial where the guy plays 'duck duck goose" with the text messages too many times. Damned cell phone companies and their keypad typing.

fogfreak, Jul 30 2003
  

       Been done   

       www.fortressmail.net

solotk2, Sep 18 2003
  
      
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