Focus on this. Wait! No, focus on that, but the real focus is ... Oh heck, derive from it what you wish. But, I meant to focus on ...
The above rhetoric may be confusing, but it's what I thought of after viewing/reading the following posting (click on the following link-
http://www.slate.com/id/2190382>1=38001 ).
EXCERPT:
Do Text Messages Live Forever?How a dirty SMS can come back to haunt you.
By Jacob Leibenluft
On Tuesday, a Michigan court released yet another batch of romantic text messages sent between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff Christine Beatty in 2002 and 2003. In the messages, Kilpatrick and Beatty—who are charged with perjury for denying their affair in court—professed their love to one another and graphically described their s*xual encounters. If you delete an old text message, can someone (or his lawyer) still find it?
Probably not—although there are exceptions. Most cell phone carriers don't permanently save the enormous amount of text-message data that is sent between users every day. AT&T Wireless, for example, says it keeps sent text messages for 48 hours only—after that, they are wiped off the system. Sprint, on the other hand, keeps messages on its server for approximately two weeks. A court order could force a carrier to retain certain messages as part of an ongoing investigation, but it would probably be impossible to get the contents of a 2002 text message from most cell phone companies.
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Posted By: Jane L. Wilson
Saturday, May 3rd 2008 at 5:19PM
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