A new iPhone app called TigerText could be a godsend in oppressive regimes, in which activists' phones are often seized or their phone histories examined. -phone application that allows its users to exchange text messages that disappear after a set period from one minute to five days. It's gone from the sender's phone, the receiver's phone and any and all computer servers. It cannot be forwarded or stored it. It was reportedly downloaded 100,000 times in the first week. At the height of the Tiger Woods media frenzy, it was the third most popular utility app on the iTunes website.
Does it threaten national security? Retired major general Dale Meyerrose, a former CIO for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and now the head of cybersecurity at tech firm Harris Corp says, "Extremists and terrorists are very tech savvy," he says. "This is not a game changer. It just might make divorce lawyers' jobs harder."
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