Thursday, February 21, 2008

More text message tips

I could hardly watch the Democratic presidential debate earlier tonight for all the texting and phone calling I was making and receiving throughout the whole thing.

But it did remind me of this interesting story I recently ran across about text messaging privacy, written in light of the controversy surrounding Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff Christine Beatty.

Of course, I’ve already talked about that on here. However, this story gave some interesting, useful information that even I wasn’t aware of.

Like the fact that basically anyone out there can easily intercept your text messages using an inexpensive radio kit or even creating their own similar devise.

As for the tips, they gave some of the no-brainers, like “Don’t ever text personal information such as your PIN number, password or banking info to anyone.” (Gee, you think?)

But, then there were some tips that were new to me, like this one: “Those concerned about privacy can send anonymous text messages with services like AnonTxt.com.”

Anyway, you can check out all the tips for yourself. Or do you even care? Is text messaging privacy something you ever think about?

22 comments:

Stephanie Bemrose said...

Thanks for the information about privacy of text messages. I knew not to send obviously private information such as financial info, but I didn't know that products were readily available to intercept texts. Makes me wonder ...

And, anonymous text messages? Goodness. I'm sure those can be put to misuse in plenty of ways. Makes me wonder ...

Donecia Pea said...

Exactly Stephanie! It really does make you wonder. I mean who takes time to go through all of that trouble? Is it even worth it?

Unknown said...

I think of text messages just like emails. You may have an intended person you're sending them too but it doesn't mean that email doesn't make a couple of stops along the way.

You put it in writing then it's out there!!!

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