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This reminds me of a feature that was on some Japanese flip phones. You could set some contacts to be "secret", and any messages from them would not appear in
by rtpg 12y ago
This reminds me of a feature that was on some Japanese flip phones.
You could set some contacts to be "secret", and any messages from them would not appear in the default app. The only notification you would get would be a small pixel embedded in the cell tower signal image in the corner of your screen. You would then go into some deeply hidden corner of your settings to get the "real" messaging app.
If you know about it, its useless, but (like this lying phone) , it can be very easy to overlook in a casual analysis of the phone (by your wife in one case, or by the police in the other). We should never discount how effective really simple things like these can end up being.
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- Ayaz 12y agoThat reminded me of the secret SMS app I made once for Symbian S60: http://tiliman.wordpress.com/rei-secretsms/ http://tiliman.wordpress.com/rei-secretsms/ It even had a duress mode, in which you could type in a secondary pin to open the app under duress, but the app, detecting the secondary pin, would wipe everything inside and start afresh.