{"id":3904,"date":"2005-12-13T18:19:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T18:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2005-12-13T18:19:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T18:19:24","slug":"self-terminating-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/self-terminating-text-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-terminating text messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blocked\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8459\" class=\"external external_icon\">Incriminating text messages need not cause embarrassment for long, thanks to a service that causes awkward notes to &#8220;self-destruct&#8221; shortly after being read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The StealthText service from UK company Staellium is only available in the UK. Users must download and install a small software application and must also have a phone capable of accessing WAP internet content.<\/p>\n<p>Cellphone users can purchase a bundle of 10 self-destructing messages for \u00c2\u00a35 by signing up and sending the word STEALTH to the number 80880. A &#8220;time-bomb&#8221; message can then be sent using the StealthText application.<\/p>\n<p>The recipient does not need to download any software as they will receive a normal text containing a link to the real message. Once the link has been activated and the message has been viewed, it will disappear after 40 seconds. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incriminating text messages need not cause embarrassment for long, thanks to a service that causes awkward notes to &#8220;self-destruct&#8221; shortly after being read. The StealthText service from UK company Staellium is only available in the UK. Users must download and install a small software application and must also have a phone capable of accessing WAP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}