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India considering banning Tiger Texts App

  • 13-06-2011 10:16am
    #1
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,691 ✭✭✭✭


    I think it's a great little app for private conversations. It's nice to have a bit of privacy in this day and age. What do you think?


    "TigerText, intended for phones powered by Android and Windows Mobile operating systems and compatible to BlackBerry and iPhone, allows a user to send text messages or photos that gets deleted automatically from both the sender's and receiver's phone after a selected period of time. “Once a sender selects the message lifespan [from 1 minute up to 30 days], expired messages not only get deleted from both phones, but are not stored on any server and they cannot be retrieved once expired,” says the website of the U.S.-based technology firm.
    “The sender can also choose other options that do not exist with current texting technology such as deleting the history of the conversation or making a text message “Delete on Read,” meaning the message will disappear 60 seconds after the recipient opens the message,” it adds.
    It is this very feature that has left the security agencies, including the Intelligence Bureau, perplexed as there would be no way to retrieve messages or photos which could be crucial for India's security. “The use of this service [TigerText] by Indian service providers may create problem to LEAs in their operational activities…It is requested that instruction may be issued to all service providers (mobile operators) that before the launch of this service, proper arrangements for LI [legal intervention] monitoring and prior approval of LEAs is required,” the Home Ministry's Internet Security wing said in its letter to DoT."


    Read full story here: http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/08/stories/2011060855632400.htm


    It won't be long before Enda and the rest of the Nanny police have this banned here as well.


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