Mission Impossible
A British company, Staellium has come up with a much-needed privacy innovation--self-destructing text messages.
Once a user is notified that the he has a message, he can use a special bit of code on the mobile device to view the missive. It erases itself after 40 seconds.
There have been a number of well-publicized embarassing cases where celebrities such as David Beckham have been caught with incriminating evidence on their cell phones. Presumably this technology will be pitched to that kind of high-profile, frequent screwing around, money-to-lose kind of market.
The problem is that for legal reasons, the messages will still be cached on the server. So organized crime will have to develop its own technology, which by the way, won't be difficult.
There is one thing about this that I don't understand...
Beckham is married to Victoria "Posh", right?
So what's up with that?
Posted on December 13, 2005
