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Monday, March 1, 2010 | 8:40am
New iPhone App Assists Cheaters Cover Their Text Tracks
Tiger Text gives folks a “mulligan” for their naughty spontaneous indescretions
While we all might condemn guys like Tiger Woods for his admitted “indiscretions,” in retrospect it really was advancements in technology that spelled his undoing.
Text messaging, voicemail, blackberrys and their on-demand push email systems, Facebook, Twitter and others have made it well harder to get away with moments of temporary temptation. Its all documented. Artist and Athletes recklessly responding to the heckling later regretting their comments and frustratingly closing their accounts. We see it every day. Technology is not the friend of the non righteous…until now.
A new SMS application now available for the iPhone allows the indescrete to fight back. Ironically dubbed the TigerText, the app functions much like those Mission Impossible messages and will self-destruct after a user determined amount of time wiping it clean from the original phone, the receiving phone, and the server. Remember that late night text you sent to that jumpoff that the misses found? What text? Or that phone pic shorty sent you of the goods? Wiped out!
While naturally positioned as a tool to assist corporate environments maintain secure messaging the app clearly has its personal functionality. No longer will you have to regret those spur of the drunk dial booty call texts. GET TIGER TEXT.
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Where has this app been all my life? LOL
Expect this to work only for a limited time.
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There are laws requiring providers to archive e-mails for a certain amount of time (3 years I think). For now, the law doesn’t apply to text messages; but I expect that loophole to be closed as people move more and more to text messaging.
They’ll close it using the extension of the “Patriot Act” probably. Calling it for National Security reasons aka government big brother curiosity.