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Article: Do you know where your text messages are?
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- January 26, 2008
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DETROIT - Millions of fingers scurrying over mobile electronic
devices probably paused this week as news emerged of a trove of text
messages containing flirty and sexually explicit chat between
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a top aide.
Even those engaging in more wholesome dialogue would be wise to
wonder: Do text messages disappear - like oral conversations - or
are they permanently logged somewhere for potential retrieval - like
e-mail usually is?
For standard consumer text-messaging technology, the answer is
largely that they disappear. But Kilpatrick's and Chief of Staff
Christine Beatty's devices employ less-fleeting technology.
"I think people can feel comfortable we're not ...