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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
  

       Been done   

       www.fortressmail.net
solotk2, Sep 18 2003
  
      
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