Of Texting and Tiger Woods
Last week’s issue of Time Magazine (yes, I read the paper copy) ran an article about a relatively new smartphone application called TigerText which allows the sender to specify an amount of time (between one and five minutes) after which the message is erased from the sender’s phone, the receiver’s phone, and supposedly all servers in between, according to the company. Time writes that the app is named for Tiger Woods (zing!), and would have also been oh so helpful for our poor Mr. Quan whom we read about this week.
This app made me wonder if the paradigm for law enforcement by collecting text message evidence might now be forced to change to something similar to phone tapping, including getting a “super warrant” first. Does anyone know if it’s even possible to strip text messages off servers in transit? It seems like it might be tricky given the relatively arbitrary routing nature of data packets.
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