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daemorok
Joined: Aug 05, 2003
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I have heard from several people that text messages you send, get stored on the providers servers for long periods of time (like 10 years).
This seems excessive to me... I was wondering if anyone has any knowledge of how providers usually handle text messages.
The 2 specific providers I am interested in are T-Mobile and Verizon |
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Lembo
Joined: Mar 13, 2004
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From: East London
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Interesting if true.
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bico
Joined: May 19, 2003
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From: Stockholm, Sweden.
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One might wonder for what purpose.
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MikLSP
Joined: Sep 21, 2003
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From: se-nse.com
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That would be A LOT of texts!!
Is the service even 10 years old!
I don't think it's true at all to be honest but I have no reasoning other than my own. There's just no point to it.
Why would they waste time & money on it?
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BobaFett
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
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From: Kamino (wish it would be Lund)
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Will be watched by security cams for our "own" secure they say... The same story in this case here imho. I do image how they read our messages and have their fun. I dont take care of it if it is. I share private and confidental infos only at personal meetings.
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T_grr
Joined: Jul 02, 2004
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From: Sweden
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Bigbrother is watching you! =)
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Vlammetje
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On 2004-08-07 00:18:00, MikLSP wrote:
That would be A LOT of texts!!
Is the service even 10 years old!
I don't think it's true at all to be honest but I have no reasoning other than my own. There's just no point to it.
Why would they waste time & money on it?
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I have no idea what is done with SMS to be honest but it would not surprise me terribly if they were stored for lengthy periods of time.
Recently legislation was passed here that forces all internet providers to keep track of their subscribed members every move on the net and this has to be saved and be accessibel to the government for a minimum of 3 years if I'm not mistaken. So much for privacy 
I would not at all be surprised to hear that something similar might exist for SMS, although 10 years seems excessively long.
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Raen
Joined: Aug 07, 2004
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From: New Zealand
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10 years...I doubt that, although 10 months sounds more likely. I know that they do store them for a while though as someone was arrested for sending abusive messages in NZ and they got most of their information about them off the providers databases |
Jimbodoggy
Joined: Jul 31, 2004
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From: England
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I don't think that anyone would read the texts that we send, as there are simply millions os text messages sent every day.
I have heard that our messages are scanned for words such as ' attack.. or bomb ' etc, for security reasons due to recent terrorist attacks |
Vlammetje
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nobody reads them unless the policy acts on a charge by somebody. Autoscanning for certain words would not surprise me at all to be honest.
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*Jojo*
Joined: Oct 15, 2003
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I guess it's being stored only for a week, speaking from Manila's local network, once sent it will clear it's database, as to accept new incoming ones  Manila is one of the world's (if not the heaviest) sms user . . . With an average of millions sms sent/received everyday  |
marik
Joined: May 31, 2004
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i certainly dont think my service provider keeps text messages that long as its only been around here for about a year. besides as some said there are millions of texts coming in everyday. and as the average text should be about 1k (half of 1k minimum) which is about 976mb in a day. then multiplying that by 7 for weeks then by 30 for months then by 12 for years then by 10 you get 24609375mb which is about 24032gb. i dont think service providers have that kind of cpu power and if they did well they'd be stupid to waste it on text messages. (someone correct me if my figures are wrong)
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MTNT68i
Joined: Jul 18, 2003
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From: Denmark
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my brother works for the largest teleprovider ín DK and the do for a fact store the sent messages... for how long i do not know... but they do...
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JaymoFish
Joined: Nov 24, 2003
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From: Perth, Western Australia
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There was also a case here about threat text messages and i think the courts here ruled it for 3 months
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plasmadog
Joined: May 06, 2004
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2000gb per year isn't much. But, i think they do it to map terrorist activities. I remember this high profile murder case, where this woman conspired with her lover to get her husband killed. And the only evidence linking her to it was the sms she sent him. These were stored for more than a few months i believe.
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Posted: 2004-08-06 16:27
