TigerText iPhone App Lets You Self-Destruct Your Text Messages

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TigerText iPhone App Lets You Self-Destruct Your Text Messages

Those text messages that you write to your friend cursing your boss or raving about the girl next door have a much longer life span than you think it does. Text messages typically reside on the carrier's server for anywhere between two days to two weeks and if you are...

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TimW

If this can auto delete on read, on any phone, it would be sweet

TimW

Edit: can't be accessed via iTunes UK so looks like United States of Europe only

iPhoneHacks

You're right, strangely the iPhone apps seems to be available only on the US App Store.

yanki

nice idea... but charging a monthly fee sucks...

Gajet

The cyber-bullies dream!
However not sure I believe it. If someone can dictate how long messages are stored by your carrier that has a severe legal implication and also would be a major security flaw.

I can believe that it works between 2 consensual app installers, but if you both have installed the app because of your paranoia, then you could just delete messages as you read them anyway, without paying someone else to do this for you.

J

Yeah that would be great but gay that u need both partys to have it

busterbrown

You people need to brush up on you technology... just about all of that is false. basically everything you do on your phones is now being saved (internet, text/picture messages, and to an extent your cell calls). this is because it all goes through the cell carrier. Tigertext does not go through your carrier, it goes to the tigertext server. This mean that once tigertext deletes the text its gone forever, the cell carrier never even sees it. and its FREE for whoever said it cost money