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Google’s Free SMS

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It looks like Google has done what teleflip set out to do: free text messages sent online. Unfortunately you do need to know your recepient’s provider. There’s another catch: “we might also log the text of the message you send, in order to investigate and correct technical problems with the service”. Uh oh.. has anyone called this evil yet?


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  1. ThickParasite says

    Scary !!!
    Thanks for this info, which I relayed on my blog in French
    http://google-observatoire.blogspot.com/2006/02/google-lit-les-sms.html

    Keep up the good work
    Laurent

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